Presenter

Tera Beach

Executive Director, Seattle Art Museum

Tera Beach, ED Spectrum Dance Theater

Prior to joining Spectrum Dance Theater, Tera is best known for her career working in the office of US Representative Jim McDermott, where she served the Seattle community and aided the legislative process for nearly two decades. Among her many professional accomplishments, Tera was the key congressional staff member assigned to work with the Wing Luke Museum toward its designation by former Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar as a National Park Service Affiliated Area-a rare recognition of an Asian Pacific American site as one of America’s cultural treasures. Beach was also dedicated to the legislative initiative to restore honor of 43 African American veterans of Fort Lawton, who were unjustly court martialed in 1944. Tera has a long track record of supporting the health and growth of our community arts and cultural resources. She is a Trustee for the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian American experience and Humanities Washington. She was recently appointed by King County Executive Dow Constantine to the 4Culture Task Force.