Terry Tracy

Terry Tracy, has worked as a human rights activist, journalist, and US diplomat. In 2007 she wrote the charter for an association of disabled employees in the US State Department. She has had epilepsy for 30 years.

Terry Tracy was born in Virginia and moved around Latin America in her childhood as an army brat. After college she worked as a receptionist, then left to work for free in Honduras at an orphanage. Terry returned to work in a human rights organization in Washington DC, then left for Guatemala to work as a free-lance journalist. By this time an addiction to wanderlust was clear. In denial, she crossed the Atlantic to Cambridge to earn a master's degree for her research on an obscure, but nevertheless intriguing, topic (indigenous litigation in the 16th century Spanish colonial judicial system). When she returned to the United States she joined the establishment. In 2007 she left the US 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.

Photo: Rebecca D'Angelo