Tracy Rice

Tracy K. Rice is a native of Kansas City, Missouri.   She currently serves as project director of the Legislative Black Caucus Foundation, a non-partisan, nonprofit, public policy, research and educational institute, which serves as a catalyst for educating future leaders and for promoting collaboration among legislators, business leaders, and organized labor to effect positive, sustainable change throughout California.

Before her work with LBCF, Tracy served as Los Angeles bureau chief, a position she enjoyed for seven years, of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.   Tracy holds a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Kansas and a juris doctorate from Loyola Law School - Los Angeles.  Before joining Rainbow/PUSH, she was a staff attorney at the ACLU of Southern California for six years.  There, she worked on a variety of civil rights cases, particularly emphasizing criminal justice issues, including prison and jail conditions of confinement cases, police brutality and death penalty appeals.

Long active in civil and human rights issues, she is currently vice president of Death Penalty Focus and serves on the board of directors for the Tom and Ethel Bradley Foundation and for IGP Technologies.