Tracey Gurd is the Interim Director of Advocacy for UUSC, managing the advocacy team’s policy and organizing work around international justice and accountability, migrant justice, and climate and disaster justice until December 2024.

Tracey spent the last eight years overseeing both an advocacy team and a civil and political rights grantmaking team at American Jewish World Service.  Prior to that, she worked for 12 years with Open Society Foundations where, among other things, she created and led the Justice Initiative’s advocacy team, monitored war crimes trials, and served as a division director for strategy.  Previously, Tracey was a policy analyst with both the Australian Embassy in Budapest and the Australian Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet in Canberra. She started her career as a regional journalist in Australia.

Tracey holds a combined arts and law degree with honors from the Australian National University; a masters in public and international law from the University of Melbourne, and she is currently pursuing a postgraduate program in psychoanalysis in New York.  She is the co-editor of a humanitarian law book, Listening to the Silences: Women and War.