Board Member Emeritus
Tracy grew up in a suburb of Toledo, Ohio, and received an Associate degree from Hocking Technical College in Recreation and Wildlife and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toledo in Natural Resource Management.
She started working for the National Park Service in 1981 at Mesa Verde National Park and worked at 13 different NPS sites before retiring in 2013 as the Chief of Visitor Services and Resource Management at Aztec Ruins National Monument. Most of the sites she worked at were in the Southwest, including; Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Zion National Park, Navajo National Monument, and others.
Her primary work was in park interpretation; providing tours and programs and overseeing visitor services. She also worked in curation, protection, and management.
Since retirement, Tracy has volunteered with the Park Curator at Aztec Ruins National Monument assisting in the care and documentation of artifacts in the collection. She spends much of her free time gardening, camping, traveling, and hiking throughout the southwest.
Tracy joined the Friends of Aztec Ruins and Friends of Chaco in 2013, became president of Friends of Aztec in 2019, and guided the two groups through a merger that took effect in January 2020.