Hello. I'm Tracy Bliss.

Prior to her career as an education administrator and university professor, Traci Bliss earned a PhD in education and an MA in social studies and history from Stanford University. Traci Bliss also belongs to the honorary Friar Society at the University of Texas at Austin, where she received a master of public administration from the LBJ School of Public Affairs.

During her 12 years on the College of Education faculty at Idaho State University (ISU), Professor Emerita Traci Bliss contributed to several documentaries, books, and journal articles related to education reform. As program director for ISU’s Idaho Classrooms of Accomplished Teachers, she obtained nearly $500,000 in grants to produce Documentaries of Accomplished Teachers, a series of videos that won recognition at the New York Festivals and the Communicator Awards. She cowrote numerous articles published in leading education journals, including Reading Teacher, The Teacher Educator, and the Journal of Teacher Education. In collaboration with colleague Joan Mazur, Traci Bliss coauthored three books, most recent among them K-12 Teachers in the Midst of Reform.

In her retirement from academia, Traci Bliss works to enhance understanding of redwood forests by speaking and writing about the history of redwood conservation in Santa Cruz County, California. Ms. Bliss co-authored several articles in the journal Redwood Logging and Conservation in the Santa Cruz Mountains: A Split History, and she is currently cowriting a book on the filming of early Westerns in Santa Cruz’s redwood forests. As a Henry Cowell Redwood State Park docent, she guides visitors on historic walking tours.