About Tracy

Tracy Barnett is an independent multimedia writer and photographer specializing in the Southwestern U.S., Latin America and sustainable travel. She has served as Travel Editor of the San Antonio Express-News and the Houston Chronicle. As a bilingual author and journalist, she has written four books and written in English and Spanish for magazines and newspapers at the national and local level for many years.

At the Chronicle and the Express-News, she won numerous travel writing and editing awards, including the North American Travel Journalists Association’s top award for destination travel and the Lowell Thomas Award from the Society of American Travel Writers. Before that, she was a founder and served for two years as the lifestyle, travel and consumer editor of Rumbo Newspapers, a chain of Spanish-language newspapers based in San Antonio. She was also the founding editor of Adelante, a bilingual newsmagazine serving the Latino, immigrant and multicultural communities of Central Missouri, based at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She taught at the University of Missouri School of Journalism for ten years, serving as assistant director and interim director for Investigative Reporters and Editors, and worked at newspapers in Missouri, California and Illinois.

She was the founder of the Show-Me Women Writers, a statewide nonprofit group aimed at helping non-professional writers to develop their expressive skills and use writing as a personal development tool. She has traveled extensively throughout the developing world and has worked with Latin American journalists since the early 1990s in a variety of capacities. She is the author of four books for high school students. She has a BJ and a master’s degree, the latter specializing in science writing, from the University of Missouri.

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