Terri Burke is The Immunization Partnership executive director. Some of you may know her from her time as executive director of the ACLU of Texas, a position she held for nearly 13 years. 

Terri had a 32-year career in journalism prior to joining the ACLU of Texas. She held senior editor roles at The Hartford Courant, The Dallas Morning News, the Austin American-Statesman, and the Albuquerque Tribune. She also was editor-in-chief of the Abilene Reporter-News. 

She is a fourth-generation Texan and a Houston native. She has served on the Greater Houston Partnership’s Quality of Place Committee; volunteered with the Sunshine Coalition that worked with state legislators to increase transparency in government; and is a member of the Philosophical Society of Texas. 

Terri studied journalism and political science at The University of Texas at Austin and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Lamar University.