Terri Burke is The Immunization Partnership executive director. Some of you may know her from her time as executive director of the ACLU of Texas, a position she held for nearly 13 years. 

Terri had a 32-year career in journalism prior to joining the ACLU of Texas. She held senior editor roles at The Hartford Courant, The Dallas Morning News, the Austin American-Statesman, and the Albuquerque Tribune. She also was editor-in-chief of the Abilene Reporter-News. 

She is a fourth-generation Texan and a Houston native. She has served on the Greater Houston Partnership’s Quality of Place Committee; volunteered with the Sunshine Coalition that worked with state legislators to increase transparency in government; and is a member of the Philosophical Society of Texas. 

Terri studied journalism and political science at The University of Texas at Austin and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Lamar University.

Ashley Beale, Program Coordinator for The Immunization Partnership, talks about her work with Texas Southern University and the Health Equity Council for Immunizations.

Pasha Morshedi is an aerospace engineer and part-time bar owner in the Houston, Texas, area. We visited with Pasha in early 2021 and talked about the impact of COVID on his business. And we thought we’d visit with him to find out what has changed for him and his business in the past year of the pandemic.