Terence Long is a writer, artist and communications specialist with 20 years of experience working with labor, nonprofit and community-based arts organizations. He started his career at SEIU as an organizer on the historic campaign to win a union for majority African American security officers in Los Angeles. Terence’s plays examine the American past, present and future through a critical lens of race and class, and have been produced and workshopped across the country. He has been awarded writing fellowships to the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale Foundation and the Santa Fe Art Institute. Terence’s plays have been seen at Playpenn in Philadelphia, the Chicago Dramatists in Chicago, the RADAR L.A. Festival in Los Angeles, the Great Plains Theatre Conference in Omaha, the Without Walls Festival in La Jolla, and the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez. He is currently the Communications Director for the Ella Baker Center in Oakland, a nonprofit that organizes Black and Brown communities to shift resources away from prisons and policing