Beauty and brains. And a whole heck of a lot of both. Quite a unique combination. But Traci was a unique combination from the start. Her background is Afro-American, Cherokee, and Italian.
Traci was the youngest of seven brothers and sisters, who set great examples for the baby fo the family. The Cambridge, Massachusetts, family was very close knit, so Traci initially took up sports to spend more time with her brothers. And Traci was game for anything – even football! Traci looks back upon her childhood with fondness, saying “I feel privileged to have had such exposure to my roots continually throughout my childhood. It’s given me strength to believe in myself.” Just as all her brothers and sisters before her had, Traci was Ivy League bound, and Harvard was where she settled.
