Terry's Professional Experience

Terry is a veteran journalist who learned how local government works by covering hundreds of city council, school board and county meetings for the San Mateo Times. She is a graduate of the highly selective League of California Cities’ California Civic Leadership Institute, which is designed to train leaders for statewide office, and she also graduated from the Coro Center for Civic Leadership’s Community Fellows leadership program. She graduated with honors from the University of Washington in Seattle with a B.A. in English.

Her professional work experience includes:

• Managing Editor, Civic Ventures
• Communications Officer, Skoll Foundation
• Editor/writer, San Francisco Chronicle
• Assistant Managing Editor, Forbes ASAP magazine
• Managing Editor, GreatSchools.net, a nonprofit Web site providing school information for parents
• Founding Family Travel Forum and Adventure Travel Forum Manager and EXPert columnist for Expedia.com
• Reporter/Editor, San Mateo Times
• Owner of Peninsula Booksearch, a small business in Burlingame that located out-of-print books for thousands of individuals, libraries and businesses for 18 years
• Managing Editor, ASU Travel Guide, a publication for airline employees
• Associate Editor, TravelAge West, a trade magazine for travel agents