Terria Smith

Terria is a tribal member of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians. For more than five years she has been working as the editor of News From Native California, a quarterly magazine devoted to the vibrant cultures, art, languages, histories, social justice movements, and stories of California’s diverse Indian peoples. Terria is also the director of California Indian Publishing at Heyday. She is a member of the Native American Journalists Association and an alumna of the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Terria is a Heyday Roundhouse Native California Fellow. At Mesa Refuge she worked on a book of personal essays centered on her world travel experiences and those of other California Native people whom she has interviewed.