Terry Boggis was one of the founding members of Center Kids in 1988 (the year her son was born). She worked as a member of the award-winning program’s volunteer steering committee until 1994, when she was hired as a paid staff program administrator thanks to a grant from the Ben and Jerry’s Foundation. Terry has been the full-time director of Center Kids, Center Families, which is the largest regional LGBT families program in the country, since January 1997. She is also currently serving as the Center's Interim Director of Public Policy.

Prior to this position, Terry was the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center’s Director of Communications, the last of several positions she held during her 15 years as a corporate and nonprofit communications specialist.
Terry has published and contributed to articles on LGBT family issues in The New York Times and other New York City dailies, Out Magazine and other gay media, and she has helped produce, and has also appeared on, news programming for the major networks. Her articles and essays have appeared in Our Right to Love lesbian anthology (Ginny Vida, ed., Simon & Schuster, 1995), the Lesbian and Gay Almanacs (Berkeley Books, 1996), The Lesbian and Gay Book of Love and Marriage (Paula Martinac, 1998), and Homefronts (Jess Wells, ed.,Alyson Books, 2000), among others. Terry has conducted LGBT awareness and anti-bias training and spoken on issues of concern to nontraditional families at the Lesbian and Gay Law Association, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s Creating Change Conference, the Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies (CLAGS), City University of New York/ NYU “Relatively Speaking” conference on LGBT families, at SUNY-Stony Brook, John Jay College, and C.W. Post, and in New York City public and private schools, among other venues. She has taught communications as a member of the adjunct faculty of Pace University. She is a founding board member of Queers for Economic Justice.

Terry Boggis is an expert for the LGBT Families: General Info forum.