Craig Terry Jr. is a Community Coordinator in the Department of Emergency Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania, in The Urban Health Lab. Craig works with a team of Community Coordinators in the deliberate implementation of community and place-based research studies. Craig has worked and volunteered as a community activist, advocate, and artist throughout various sectors in the City of Philadelphia and Montgomery County. He has worked to disrupt systemic racism in behavioral healthcare, the food economy, the juvenile justice system, and the arts. Previously, Craig worked as a mentor for young men being processed through Montgomery County Juvenile Probation and the Office of Children and Youth. He has been a Youth Advisor for the Philadelphia Alliance for Child Trauma Services and sits on the Community Advisory Board for The Department of Public Health.

Craig received his B.A. in Film/Media Studies and Psychology from Bucknell University and has done animal behavior research and served as a leader in many cultural groups. He also received certifications in Adult Mental Health First Aid from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing and Psychological First Aid from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Craig wishes to utilize his extensive knowledge and experience to serve marginalized Philadelphian communities. By means of volunteering, community collaboration, and documentary photography and filmmaking, Craig insists on changing the dominant systems that debilitate many of Philadelphia’s Black neighborhoods and widens disparities.