Over two decades of experience in national politics; consulting independently since 2011.
Tracy advises on messaging and positioning for a range of clients including advocacy groups, political campaigns, authors, filmmakers and actors, foundations and think tanks, Fortune 500 companies and start-ups. She designs and manages communications for high-stakes issue campaigns and provides principals with confidential counsel.
Tracy brings a wealth of experience from the highest levels of presidential politics.
In addition to aiding presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaigns, she has advised the Democratic National Committee, served in multiple presidential campaign “war rooms,” led Election Protection efforts, liaised with labor unions, and has been sought as a counselor and media advisor for gubernatorial and statewide campaigns. As a U.S.-based strategist, she also assisted a successful presidential reelection in East Africa.
Tracy has broken barriers in political advocacy—crafting national communications strategy as senior advisor for the first grassroots super PAC Ready for Hillary, and leading the first modern digital corporate reputation campaign Walmart Watch. Her work with SwiftStudent was honored as a Fast Company World Changing Idea.
Tracy has appeared as a Democratic strategist on all major news networks and before audiences like South by Southwest Interactive, Washington Post Live, Harvard University Institute of Politics, British Embassy Washington, French-American Foundation, the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, and Chicago Ideas Week. She gave the Beta Omicron Distinguished Alumni Lecture at Cornell College and was selected to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Programme D’Invitation des Personnalités D’Avenir. She has been profiled by Chicago magazine, appears regularly as a guest on SiriusXM POTUS, and authored opinion pieces in such leading national outlets as The Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.
She served for over a decade on the Board of Directors of RAINN, which operates the national sexual assault hotline and has published numerous research papers on communities’ responses to sexual assault. She previously served on the Moore Center Policy Advisory Board at Johns Hopkins University. A classically trained pianist, she spent several years on the Board of The People’s Music School, a Chicago non-profit offering free music education to underserved children. Beginning in 2023, she has resumed performing as a solo pianist.
Tracy earned a B.A. in sociology and music at Cornell College, earned an M.A. and conducted Ph.D. studies in sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
After many years in Washington, she and her husband, Northwestern University professor Darius Tandon, now live exactly 2.5 miles from Wrigley Field in Chicago.
Tracy earned a B.A. in sociology and music at Cornell College, earned a M.A. and conducted Ph.D. studies in sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. After many years in Washington, she and her husband, Northwestern University professor Darius Tandon, now live exactly 2.5 miles from Wrigley Field in Chicago.
