Terry Hong is the former Media Arts Consultant for the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. She served as the project director of the 2003 Smithsonian Korean American Centennial Commemoration and created the Korean American Centennial Commemoration Curriculum Guide. She ‘retired’ from the APA Center in June 2010, and remains the resident BookDragon. Terry writes frequently about books, theater, film, and the Asian Pacific American experience. Terry’s publication credits include American Book Review, American Theatre magazine, The Bloomsbury Review, Booklist, Christian Science Monitor, Dallas Morning News, Library Journal, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, School Library Journal, Shelf Awareness, The Washington Post, among many others. She was theater columnist and books editor for aMagazine: Inside Asian America, and the books columnist for AsianWeek. She co-authored two books, Eastern Standard Time: A Guide to Asian Influence on American Culture from Astro Boy to Zen Buddhism with Jeff Yang and Dina Gan, and What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Edition with Rafaela G. Castro, Edith Maureen Fisher, and David Williams. Chapter credits include Notable Asian Americans edited by Helen Zia and Susan B. Gall; The Asian American Almanac edited by Irene Natividad and Susan B. Gall; The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How Introduction to Ethnic Studies: A Reader edited by Philip Q. Yang; and Active Reading Skills edited by Kathleen McWhorter. In her past lives, Terry taught for two years in Duke University’s Leadership in the Arts, a performance and public policy program based in New York City. She’s worked in advertising and marketing, and even had a stint in Silicon Valley (she was still a Luddite then). She is an Advisor for 10×10: Educate Girls, Change the World, a global action campaign highlighting girls and education. She served as the Literary Coordinator for the film, Girl Rising. She’s a frequent speaker on diversity, race/ethnicity, and contemporary Asian Pacific American issues. Terry holds degrees from Dartmouth College and Yale University.
