Tracey recently retired from teaching elementary music in the North Clackamas School District, having previously taught choir at the middle and high school levels and twenty years in church music ministry. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Music, MEd, and Master’s in Choral Conducting from Portland State University. She and her husband of 40+ years live in Gresham, Oregon. Currently she is the choir director at First Baptist Church in Gresham, and a private piano instructor. Non music  interests include enjoying her seven grandchildren, swimming, cooking, and a hobby gone wild of making candles and personal care items.