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Over the past 20 years, Tracey has been a private foundation Executive Director and the founder of an array of global organizations (nonprofits and B Corps) in climate change, marine conservation and animal welfare. Her work has been featured in Barons magazine , The New York Times and The Stanford Social Innovation Review. Prior to that, she was a producer and journalist at CNN, ABC News, CBS News and occasionally directed pieces for New York Times digital.

In climate change, Tracey was a co-founder of the investment group Aligned Intermediary (AI), created to help institutional investors increase the flow of private capital into clean energy projects and companies through direct investments. In its first year, AI mobilized hundreds of millions of dollars of investments—after which time the team went on to launch Aligned Climate Capital and two multi billion dollar funds. AI was also notable for architecting the Climate Finance Partnership with BlackRock, Germany, France and a consortium of philanthropies—an unprecedented cooperation of stakeholders committed to jointly developing a vehicle for investing in emerging markets.

Tracey was also the founding CEO of Energy Options Network, an accelerator providing intensive hands-on support to select clean energy developers working to launch transformative climate-scale technologies outside of the mainstream portfolio (i.e. gaseous fission, advanced nuclear, carbon capture, superhot rock geothermal energy, zero-carbon liquid fuels). EON provided support in the form of technical, business and communications expertise, identifying and forging strategic partnerships, and investor introductions/relations. Lastly, she was a co-founder of the Electrification Coalition (EC), a nonpartisan group of industry leaders collectively committed to transportation electrification in the US at mass scale. EC was recognized for its outstanding work partnering with state leaders to accelerate EV adoption in targeted communities across the US.

In marine conservation, Tracey is a co-founder of Oceans 5 (O5), a global funders collaborative that seeks to protect the planet’s five oceans. Its core, but not exclusive, focus areas are increasing marine protected areas, restoring global fisheries and constraining offshore oil and gas development. The organization gives new and experienced philanthropists an effective platform to collectively target their assets for greater impact and scale. A handful of spinoff collaboratives emerged from O5 focused on specific issue areas including plastics reduction and shark protection. To date there are two dozen O5 partners collectively deploying hundreds of millions of dollars into marine projects including Bloomberg Philanthropies, Oak Foundation, the Wyss Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Waitt Foundation, Marisla Foundation, Planet Heritage Foundation, Moore Charitable Trust, Paul Angell Family Foundation, Zegar Family Foundation, Adessium, Stellar Blue Fund, Oceankind, Arcadia, Joy Family Foundation and the Tiffany & Co Foundation.

As an animal lover to the extreme, Tracey was the founding CEO of Target Zero (TZ)—a nonprofit organization featured in The New York Times that created a set of best practices for the sector while helping to mentor cities from high kill shelter rates down to zero euthanasia of adoptable shelter animals. Between 2013 and 2018, the TZ team helped guide 21 cities and counties to zero. Tracey “gifted” Target Zero to Maddie’s Fund in late 2018 so that she could return to her climate and marine work full time.

Tracey has worked closely with Leonardo DiCaprio, Edward Norton and David Duchovny where they had overlapping interests. She recruited DiCaprio to the board of directors of Oceans 5, worked with Norton to raise funds and awareness for the innovative work being done by the conservation group Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, and she created/directed the Lick My Face campaign with Duchovny and a handful of celebrities to bring attention and funding to the animal shelter issue. Additionally, Tracey worked closely with the TED Conference to bring 100 of the most influential people in marine conservation to collaborate during a weeklong voyage to the Galapagos Islands (where she officially launched Oceans 5) and went on to work with Al Gore and his team doing the same for climate change during a voyage to Antarctica.

Tracey always occupies a board seat for her startups, then moves on once she feels an organization has reached a sufficient level of growth and sustainability. Today, she sits on the board of directors of the Windsor Square Association where she resides with her husband, 8 year old daughter, two rescue dogs and a cat. As a former network news journalist/producer, filmmaker (i.e. Executive Producer, Freedom Writers) and producer/director creating a variety of shows for MTV, she often drives the communications for the initiatives she builds.