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At the local level, Traci served the City of Richmond as Deputy Chief Administrative Officer for Human Services, where she led the strategic management and administration of a six-agency portfolio with more than 1,000 employees. During her tenure, Traci developed a new city agency, the Department of Neighborhood and Community Services, established two new offices — the Office of Homeless Services and the Office of Neighborhood and Community Services, and launched a community resource and training center designed to strengthen service coordination and community self-sufficiency among those experiencing homelessness and other hardships. Concurrently, Traci served as the first-ever Chief Equity Officer for the City of Richmond. Notably, in this role, she supported the modernization of the city’s language access policies.

At the state level, Traci served as Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia under Governor Ralph S. Northam and Terence R. McAuliffe, supervising a team across eight divisions responsible for core constitutional and administrative functions. These divisions delivered services to more than 2,000 Virginians weekly. As Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth, Traci played a pivotal role in supporting the Governor with clemency, contributing to historic actions restoring the civil and voting rights of more than 300,000 Virginians across the two administrations and the granting of thousands of pardons and sentence computations for Virginians well overdue for second chances.

Earlier in her career, Traci represented Virginia as Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, managing a broad federal policy portfolio and advancing the Commonwealth’s interests with Congress, the White House, and federal agencies.

Consistent with Governor Spanberger’s vision, she brings ethical leadership, operational rigor, and a people-centered approach to building a Commonwealth government that is effective, accountable, and worthy of public trust. 

Traci is a graduate of the University of Virginia’s Sorensen Political Leaders Program, Virginia Commonwealth University’s Virginia Executive Institute and Minority Political Leadership Institute, and the Women’s Campaign School at Yale. She earned degrees from Virginia Tech and Hollins University. 

Traci resides in Richmond with her husband, Wayne, and as a lifelong Virginian, she remains committed to serving the place she has always called home.