Meet Tracey

Tracey was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1966.

She was educated as a child at Central Baptist School and when her family moved to Felicity, Ohio, she attended 5th and 6th grade at Felicity Elementary School. In 1978, her family moved back to Cincinnati and Tracey was enrolled at Immanuel Baptist School. Tracey graduated from Immanuel in 1984 and shortly after graduation Tracey’s family moved to Bethel where Tracey worked at Bethel IGA in the deli for two years.

In 1987, Tracey started working at Clermont County Public Library at the Doris Wood branch in Batavia where, among other duties, she drove the bookmobile to Marathon, Edenton, Owensville, Newtonsville, Goshen, and Felicity. During her 33 years at the library, Tracey was promoted to the position of manager of programming. One of her greatest achievements was training, mentoring and supporting youth and adult programmers to create programs for their branches, schools, and retirement communities. Tracey was the go-to Summer Reading creator at the library for almost 20 years. The last summer reading program at the time of her retirement reached almost 10,000 individuals. Tracey was an integral part in the unionization of her workplace which unionized in 2022.

Tracey officially became a mother in 2003 after adopting her one and only child, a son, Everett who had just turned 8. Over the next years, Tracey with her new son in tow, attended school at night and on weekends for almost 20 years and completed three degrees -an Associate of Applied Arts from University of Cincinnati Clermont College, a Bachelors in Organizational Leadership from Northern Kentucky University and an M.B.A. from Northern Kentucky University.

Tracey is a triple negative stage 3 breast cancer survivor. She has been in remission for 10 years.

It is her great privilege to run as a candidate for State Representative for District 63.