Tess Riski is an editorial intern at Crosscut and a junior journalism major at Seattle University, where she serves as the news editor at her school newspaper, the Spectator. Born and raised in south King County's Des Moines, she likes reporting on crime, education and local politics. After graduation, she intends to work as an investigative reporter and mesh her two passions: writing and sleuthing around.
High, drunk, gay, trans, sex-worker, drug-dependent, unhoused, all of the above, none of the above, it doesn’t matter; everyone is welcome at the Aurora Commons.