Tracie Powell is a leader in philanthropic efforts to increase racial equity and diversity in the news media. She is Mercer University’s Center for Collaborative Journalism (CCJ) Media Changemaker recipient. The founder of The Pivot Fund, supporting independent BIPOC community news, she was a fall 2021 Shorenstein Center Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. Tracie is the immediate past board chair of LION Publishers and she was the founding fund manager of the Racial Equity in Journalism Fund at Borealis Philanthropy. She is also the founder of AllDigitocracy.org and was a senior fellow with the Democracy Fund, a 2016 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. She is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Georgia. Tracie has had journalism positions at several publications, including the Dallas Examiner and she is a member of NABJ and ONA.
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