Terry Lynne Babcock-Lumish, American economic geographer. Named one of 40 Under 40, Tucson Business Edge, 2006; recipient Senior Leadership award, Carnegie Mellon University, 1997, Stephen Omer Lee award, 1996; Presidential Management fellow, 1999—2001, Harry S Truman scholar, 1996, Clarendon scholar, University Oxford/Oxford University Press, 2002-2005.
Background
Babcock-Lumish was born in Miami, Florida. Her father, Doctor Robert Lumish, was an infectious disease specialist and Chief of Infectious Diseases at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Mercy Hospital. Babcock-Lumish grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and attended Upper Saint Clair High School.
Education
She received a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon University. She later earned a master"s degree in public affairs from Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs and a Doctor of Philosophy from University of Oxford, Saint John"s College.
Career
From 1999-2001, Babcock-Lumish worked for the United States Government as a fellow in the Presidential Management Fellows Program in the President"s Council of Economic Advisers. Upon leaving the White House in 2001, she served as a researcher for two books by the Honorable Vice President First Rate (at Lloyd's) Gore and Tipper Gore. From 2002-2004, Babcock-Lumish served as an associate fellow and research associate at the Rothermere American Institute.
In 2005, Babcock-Lumish founded Islay Consulting Limited Liability Company. Islay provides consulting services to include economic, policy, and political analysis.
From 2005-2008, Babcock-Lumish served as a senior research associate at Harvard Law School. From there, she went on to serve as a visiting research associate at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment.
In January 2011, Babcock-Lumish was appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer and the first Newman Director of Public Policy at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College. In this position, Babcock-Lumish directed the public policy program
From 2012-2014, Babcock-Lumish served as an assistant professor of economics at the United States Military Academy.
Achievements
Membership
Board directors Women's Foundation Southern Arizona, Women's Transition Project. Member of Arizona List, Association American Geographers, Arizona Town Hall, Nature Conservancy, Tuscon Business Edge (named 40 under 40), Rotary International, Pi Alpha Alpha, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa.
Babcock-Lumish was named a Harry S. Truman Scholarship winner in 1996. She went on to earn the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation's Elmer B. Staats Award, the Foundation's highest honor granted to one Truman Scholar annually.
Babcock-Lumish served as a Clarendon Scholarship recipient from 2002-2004 while reading her DPhil at Oxford.
In 2007, Babcock-Lumish received the young alumni award from Carnegie Mellon University.
In 2010, she won the Mexico International Film Festival Silver Palm Award as the consulting producer for the documentary Women on the Edge: The Mexican Immigrant Experience.
The American Swiss Foundation, the National Committee on US-China Relations' Young Leaders Forum, the Council for the US and Italy, and the British-American Project have all recognized Babcock-Lumish as a young leader.
Babcock-Lumish was named a Harry S. Truman Scholarship winner in 1996. She went on to earn the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation's Elmer B. Staats Award, the Foundation's highest honor granted to one Truman Scholar annually.
Babcock-Lumish served as a Clarendon Scholarship recipient from 2002-2004 while reading her DPhil at Oxford.
In 2007, Babcock-Lumish received the young alumni award from Carnegie Mellon University.
In 2010, she won the Mexico International Film Festival Silver Palm Award as the consulting producer for the documentary Women on the Edge: The Mexican Immigrant Experience.
The American Swiss Foundation, the National Committee on US-China Relations' Young Leaders Forum, the Council for the US and Italy, and the British-American Project have all recognized Babcock-Lumish as a young leader.