Terry Tracy

Terry Tracy, has worked as a human rights activist, journalist, and U.S. diplomat. Terry has had epilepsy for over twenty-five years and in 2007 she wrote the charter for an association of disabled employees at the U.S. State Department.

Terry Tracy was born in Virginia, but moved around Latin America in her childhood as an army brat. After college Terry worked as a receptionist, then left to work for free in Honduras at an orphanage. She returned to work in a human rights organization in Washington DC, then left for Guatemala to work as a free-lance journalist. By this point, an addiction to wanderlust was clear. In denial, she crossed the Atlantic to Cambridge, England where she earned a Master's degree by studying an impractical, but nevertheless intriguing, subject--16th century Spanish colonial judicial systems. When she returned to the US she joined the establishment and worked for the government. In 2007 she left the State Department to take turns as a stay-at-home parent. Terry is Asian-Irish American and currently resides in London with her German husband and their Asian-Irish-German-American daughter.