Terry is a professor, entrepreneur, and policymaker.
She founded Islay Consulting LLC in 2005 to provide strategy consulting services to innovative leaders tackling the world's thorniest challenges. Terry specializes at the intersection of science, technology, and society. She has worked in local, state, and federal government, and the public, private, and independent sectors.
Her recent years' academic affiliations include the United States Military Academy at West Point, Harvard Law School, the University of Arizona, the Rothermere American Institute, and the Oxford Centre for the Environment, where Babcock-Lumish earned her doctoral degree as a Truman and Clarendon Scholar. While at the City University of New York's Hunter College, she served as the founding Director of Public Policy at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, dedicated to education, research, and civic engagement, in the historic New York City home of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt.
In her free time, the Cordon Bleu-trained chef may be found experimenting with new recipes, traveling, practicing yoga, or participating in tests of endurance by foot or by bicycle.