Tracy D
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Joined 1/18/2022
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Tracy is a writer and editor with more than 25 years of experience with print and web content. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English, and has worked for multiple local and national publications, both in-house and as a freelancer.
As associate editor for a visitor's magazine, Tracy wrote about the city's food, music and entertainment scene. She crafted pieces about tourist attractions and wrote profiles and listings.
As an editor for a business journal, Tracy focused on business profiles, breaking news, and oversaw and wrote the Book of Lists.
Tracy's specialties include food writing, small business profiles, gardening and travel. She has written web content on multiple topics, and her work has appeared in The New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Charlotte Observer, USAToday, and SFGate, to name a few.
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Specialties

Tracy's areas of expertise include career and work, personal health, personal finance, travel, and food and the restaurant industry. She specializes in writing personal profiles related to these categories.
Tracy has extensive experience writing articles related to small business, careers, and business practices. As a former food writer, she has written numerous articles focused on new restaurants, changes within the restaurant industry, and chef profiles.
Tracy has written about topics such as returning to work during the Covid pandemic, legalities involving workplace issues, and workers' rights involving compensation.

Interests

Tracy particularly enjoys writing about food and food-related topics, having written for years about the food scene in New Orleans.
She enjoys writing travel pieces, with an emphasis on best-kept local attractions. She has experienced behind-the-scenes interviews that have included feeding alligators, spending time in a penguin habitat, and Mardi Gras float making.
In her free time, she is a miniaturist and an aspiring gardener who loves plants and tries not to kill them. She also enjoys writing about miniature dollhouse artistry, particularly half-scale dollhouses.

Education

James Madison University

Tracy received a Bachelor of Art in English from James Madison University, located in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Food

100 Projects Completed

As a longtime food writer, Tracy has written multiple articles on the following topics: popular trends in the food industry, best restaurants in a particular location, restaurant and chef profiles, Top Best lists, street food, ethnic foods, health food trends and products such as kombucha, careers in the food industry, and farm-to-table sustainability and eco-friendly food.

Lifestyle

50 Projects Completed

Tracy's areas of expertise include career and work, personal health, travel, and food and the restaurant industry. She specializes in writing personal profiles related to these categories.

Business

25 Projects Completed

Tracy has extensive experience writing articles related to small business, careers, and business practices.
She has profiled women in business, realtors, entrepreneurs, restaurateurs and chefs.
Tracy has written about topics such as returning to work during the Covid pandemic, legalities involving workplace issues, and workers' rights involving compensation. She has explored both employee and employer issues and perspectives.

Travel

20 Projects Completed

Tracy's areas of expertise in travel include articles about traveling on a budget, camping, youth hostels, and destination weddings.
She has written about traveling alone, the media impact on tourism, changes within the hotel industry (including the impact of short-term rentals and AirBnB), and how-to pieces describing transportation and scheduling.

CBD Products

5 Projects Completed

Tracy has experience writing about the evolving CBD industry, including small business start-ups, brick and mortar shops, and online retailers and wholesalers. She has written about topics including CBD health benefits, CBD and pets, and the different kinds of CBD (oils, tinctures, vapes and edibles). She has also written about various legal issues involving the industry and TCH.

Article

200 Projects Completed

Tracy has written articles across multiple platforms on multiple topics. She has written for business journals, daily newspapers, lifestyle magazines, travel websites, and how-to platforms.
She has extensive experience with interviewing for profile pieces, and has written articles related to finance, business, the restaurant industry, gardening and planting practices, and tourism.

Brochure

10 Projects Completed

Tracy has experience with brochure writing, product description and fundraising. She has written brochures for museum fundraising, art councils, and city preservation.
She has profiled employees for in-house brochures in the areas of finance (CFAs, CPAs and CFOs), real estate, and community business leaders.

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