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Dr. Terry Whitt Bailey is Director of Community Development for the City of Muncie, Indiana.

Prior to her appointment, she served as President & Chief Executive Officer of the Madame Walker Theatre Center and Cornerstone Center for the Arts.

Terry previously held positions with Ball State University, most notably as the Chief of Staff for the Office of the President. She also was an Assistant Professor at Ball State and at Chicago State Universities.  She is currently an Adjunct Professor in the School of Business and the School of Liberal Arts at Ivy Tech Community College.

Terry received two Mayor’s Community Service Awards, the Indiana Community Arts Leadership Award, the Indiana Women of Achievement Award for Community Service, the Athena Award from Women in Business Unlimited (WIBU), and the Very Important Volunteer Award (V!VA).

Terry earned a Bachelors degree from Rutgers University, and a Masters degree from UCLA, and her Doctor of Ministry degree from Newburgh Theological Seminary.

Terry is a member of Union Missionary Baptist Church in Muncie where she serves as the Director of Combined Children & Youth Ministries and the Director of the Creative Arts Ministry.  She is married to John S. Bailey, Jr., and they have two children; Dena, who is a doctoral student at Argosy University, and Jeremiah, who is a freshman at Ivy Tech Community College.