Terry Lowe

Terry Lowe served as Director of Philanthropic Services for The Sierra Fund from 2003-2007. She refined the Fund’s grantmaking activities, working with donors and organizations to direct strategic conservation investments within the Sierra and beyond.

Terry worked with donors and grantmaking initiatives on a wide range of issues spanning the fields of social, economic and environmental justice in other previous staff positions with the Shalan Foundation, Common Counsel Foundation and the Tides Foundation. She has also worked as an independent consultant for over 15 years, helping to raise many millions of dollars from public and private sources for organizations working to make the world a better place. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from Cornell University in 1989.

Terry lives in Rough and Ready, CA with her two children. She volunteers with the BriarPatch Co-op in Grass Valley and is an enthusiastic local food advocate.  She is a writer, editor, poet and memoirist.