terrice bassler draws upon deep experience as a leader who supports others. Through her global journey and lifelong learning, she has become a curator of wisdom and resources for self-understanding, meeting challenge with resilience, finding purpose and meaning in how we live.

Her career began at the World Bank, where she contributed to its earliest investments in China. She led the Bank’s first loans for schooling in Romania and Albania, as they evolved beyond harsh regimes. In 1996, George Soros invited terrice to join the Open Society Foundations network, where she designed and directed support to education visionaries in transition countries and hot spots. From this role, terrice edited Learning to Change, a collection of first-person narratives by activist-observers across the former Yugoslavia and neighbouring Southeast Europe, where schools were inter-connected with resistance, democracy-building and societal healing. She held executive and senior advisory posts for months or years at a time in Hungary, Albania, Slovenia, Kosovo and South Africa.