About Tracie
The special election takes place on May 4, 2024, and Tracie Shelton is YOUR candidate for the open NEISD Board of Trustees District 2 seat. Tracie is ready to go to work for you as she knows that ensuring a solid K-12 education to ALL is foundational to building a strong community. Getting students excited about learning and connected with the right resources in their direct environment sets them on a successful path to be lifelong learners who engage with our community, nurture it, and emerge as leaders of our state and its economy. As a community-based serial entrepreneur and dedicated mom of three, Tracie has spent an impressive amount of years connecting resources and solutions to a myriad of issues.
Tracie has a heart of service. She is passionate about others and advocates for everyone’s success. She is eager to leverage her background, skills, and experiences for the benefit and service of District 2 families who want their voices to cut through the administrative noise. Tracie is an expert at designing, executing, and operating growth-oriented solutions. She has done so for varied organizations and early career individuals. She’s an authentic servant leader, mentor, and advocate. When Tracie founded Alamo Kitchens in 2018, she brought all of these attributes to her enterprise. She identified a community need and connected it to her solution; a clean, safe, certified commercial kitchen where food focused entrepreneurs, often in the difficult startup phase, can build and scale their business. Alamo Kitchens became a force multiplier not only by connecting community members with the infrastructure they lacked, but by introducing them to learning opportunities and valuable partners in the community and beyond. Since its launch, Alamo Kitchens has proudly embodied and expanded its role as a community training and education platform, strengthening and producing several successful entrepreneurs. Tracie’s concern for healthy, community-based, food alternatives has also positioned Alamo Kitchens as a premier choice for healthy catering offerings.
Given the ever-changing digital landscape our children grow up in, Tracie wants to also bring her industry knowledge to the Board of Trustees. Her experience as the Global Manager for Capstone and Alumni engagement at a top-ranked Fortune 100 Technical University puts her right at the crossroad where learners and graduates come to seek support and mentorship while strengthening their technical skills. In this role, Tracie saw firsthand how technological savvy has become as important as the traditional curricula offered in schools. Tracie will champion current technological advancements being appropriately considered in student academics. In doing so, District 2 will better position itself to produce competitive local, state, and even global leaders.
Following her deep love for San Antonio, Tracie founded The Community Table Foundation in 2023; a nonprofit organization that focuses on creating programs that support local communities in the areas of food security and education. Tracie also invests in the community by teaching as an adjunct instructor of Business at the University of Incarnate Word. Tracie’s community engagement extends even further. She is a board member of the Food Policy Council of San Antonio, a member of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. serving as their Strategic Planning Chair, a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. serving as the Grow with Google Chair, and a dedicated St. Paul United Methodist Church member. Tracie Shelton holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from Southwestern University at Georgetown, Texas and serves on their Board of Visitors.
