Tracey has a Master's of Science in Gerontology, a Master's of Science in Psychology and a PhD in Developmental Psychology. She teaches several graduate and undergraduate service-based courses including grant writing, research methods and old is the new young. She is also a Service-Learning faculty fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University. Tracey takes an all-inclusive approach to teaching about aging, particularly highlighting those understudied and underrepresented groups that are at increased risk of negative health outcomes and discrimination. Her community-engaged research interests include the professional identity development and career commitment of gerontologists, education through community engagement and service-learning, aging anxiety, ageism and gerontophobia, LGBT aging and staff knowledge and quality of care.