Tracy Rector is an Emmy award-winning artist passionate in amplifying and uplifting Indigenous and other BIPOC creatives. She has two decades of experience as a community organizer, educator, filmmaker, film programmer, and arts curator, all infused with her deep roots in plant medicine. Tracy has directed and produced over 400 films including shorts, features, music videos, and virtual reality projects. Her work has been featured with Independent Lens, imagineNATIVE, Sundance, Cannes, and Toronto. She is also the founder of 4th World Media Lab – now in its tenth cohort season.

Tracy has received the National Association for Media Literacy Education Award, 2016 Stranger Genius Award, and the Horace Mann Award for her work in utilizing media for social justice. She is a Firelight Media Fellow, WGBH Producer Fellow, Sundance Institute Lab Fellow, Tribeca All Access Grantee and a Rockwood Philanthropic Fellow. Tracy serves as a Working Films, Multitude Films and Flaherty board member, is a senior programmer at the Seattle International Film Festival, and completed two four-year terms as a Seattle Arts Commissioner. And in 2023, FORBES noted Tracy as one of the most influential media makers in television and film addressing the climate crisis.