Tracy is the Deputy Director for Finance and Advancement at the Missoula Art Museum in Jeannette Rankin’s hometown. Before moving to Montana in 1998 she spent 12 years in the communications industry doing public and investor relations at boutique firms in the Twin Cities in Minnesota. She has served on more than a dozen nonprofit boards at the local, state, regional, and national level. She has chaired the national board of the YWCA USA in Washington, D.C., as well as the Minnesota Women’s Consortium, and has served as treasurer of the Seattle-based Social Justice Fund and of Montana Conservation Voters. Prior to her work at the Missoula Art Museum, Tracy was the Chief Operating Officer at Forward Montana, an organization that seeks  to deepen young Montanan’s culture of civic engagement and encourages them to vote, lead and run for office.She attended the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and is a member of Mensa.