Faye Terry joined Wise Forest February of 2017.  She was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and spent time on a farm above the clouds in Big Sur, California.  She is beyond excited to descend from the mountaintops and fulfill her longtime dream of digging roots in the Bay area! 
As an undergraduate at Clark University studying International Development and Social Change & Geography with a concentration in Sub-Saharan African Politics, she spent a semester studying abroad in Namibia in a program called “De-Colonizing the Mind.” During that time, she worked in the only functional shelter for abused women and children in the country to build the capacity of Namibian institutions to combat gender-based violence and provide care for survivors of domestic abuse.  That experience inspired an urgent itch inside her to travel, ask questions, and most importantly, listen.  Upon her return, she completed a masters degree in Community Development & Planning with a concentration in Youth Development, and has since then remained on the path toward community development through the empowerment of young people, that inevitably is powered by a pragmatic yet ambitious vision for social justice.  She spent two seasons working as a teacher at an environmental education nonprofit, where she was responsible for unplugging elementary and middle school students from the wired and disconnected world in which they are embedded by sparking a sincere interest in learning and exploration of the social and ecological world around them.  She then spent a year teaching at an alternative arts-based preschool in Brooklyn, and simultaneously earned her Emergency Medical Technician certification.  
Faye has come to learn that imagination always lives amongst children, so amongst children is where she must be!