Grace Paine Terzian Explained

Grace Paine Terzian
Birth Date:19 October 1952
Birth Place:Boston, Massachusetts
Education:B.A., 1974
Alma Mater:Williams College
Employer:Institute for Humane Studies
Director of Marketing, Development
Spouse:Philip Terzian, Oct. 20, 1979
Children:William Thomas Hillman
Gracie Terzian
Parents:Thomas Fite and Grace Hillman (Benedict) Paine

Grace Paine Terzian (born October 19, 1952) is Director of Marketing for Development for the Institute for Humane Studies.

Terzian previously served[1] as Chief Communications Officer of MediaDC, the parent company of The Washington Examiner and The Weekly Standard.[2] And prior to that[2] she was Vice President for Communications of the Hudson Institute, managing Hudson's publications and website, public relations, and events.

She is the daughter of Thomas F. Paine Jr., M.D. a physician who, among other things, was a pioneer in the study of the side effects of antibiotics, and Grace Benedict Paine. Terzian was Phi Beta Kappa at Williams College where she studied Art History and graduated in 1974.[3]

Terzian has worked in a variety of publishing and public policy-oriented positions, including The New Republic, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Architectural Digest. During the 1990s and into the early 2000s, Terzian worked at the Independent Women’s Forum, where she was Senior Vice President, and also Publisher of The Women’s Quarterly. Immediately prior to working at the Hudson Institute, Terzian was Executive Director of the Allergy and Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics.

Married to Philip Terzian, and the mother of two, she lives in Fairfax County, Virginia.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Archived website of MediaDC from 4/25/2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150425073519/http://mediadc.com. dead. 2015-04-25.
  2. Web site: Archived website of Hudson Institute from 1/15/2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20120205055801/http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=hudson_leadership. dead. 2012-02-05.
  3. "Grace Paine Terzian." Marquis Who's Who TM. Marquis Who's Who, 2010. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2010. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC. Document Number: K2016161728. Fee via Fairfax County Public Library, accessed 2010-08-29.