Tracy graduated from Lehigh University with a B.S. in Bioengineering in 2006. From there she went on to graduate school at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and joined the laboratory of Dr. Marsha Rolle where she studied vascular tissue engineering. For her dissertation she developed and characterized a novel, scaffold-free platform technology used to generate vascular tissues. In July of 2012, Tracy joined the McDevitt lab as a postdoctoral fellow.