Terry Winckler is an award-winning author/editor in Alameda who authored three books, led two daily newspapers as executive editor, was managing editor of Earthjustice, and represented Harper’s Magazine at the first world conference on environment. He worked in a Mayan village as a volunteer, covered Guatemala’s civil war as a journalist, and hitchhiked home to the United States along the migrant trail. For seven years, he lived on a sailboat in the Oakland Estuary with his wife, Laura Oda, and their two sons. They moved to Alameda in 2001.

“Live A Life Worth Telling” is Terry’s motto and the focus of his talk at Alameda Rotary Club. Of special interest to Rotarians will be how in his mid-20s he became a volunteer with a Rotary group in a poor Mayan village in Guatemala. Because of that experience, he returned years later as a journalist to discover revolutionary forces hidden atop a volcano. His book, “A Voice Came Down The Mountain”, depicts those experiences and how ultimately it led him to Alameda. All three of his books will be available for purchase at his presentation.