She was a former correspondent with The Associated Press in Chicago, a former national editor for The Associated Press broadcast division in Washington D.C. and a 1999 graduate of Notre Dame Law School. She earned a bachelor’s degree in political science, with a minor in communications, from DePaul University in 1989. She earned a master’s degree in journalism from Florida A&M University in Tallahassee in 1995.

Traci's teaching focuses on Media Law and Ethics and Mass Communications and Society. She has created a special topics course on Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Media and developed a new course in Cyber Law. This year she will advise students in editing and publishing The Echo, the school’s online magazine.

Traci is involved with the Saint Michael’s MOVE (mobilization of volunteer efforts) organization, accompanying a group of students on a service trip to New York City. They worked with an organization that prepares and delivers meals to homebound AIDS patients. She also works with numerous local organizations dealing with issues of homelessness and AIDS, including COTS (Committee on Temporary Shelter). She also sits on the Board of Directors for the Imani Health Institute, a non-profit organization aimed at providing AIDS education and services in the Burlington minority community.

Traci’s family is from the island of Barbados and she travels to the Caribbean regularly. She has also visited many countries in Europe and toured Egypt.