Tracey Lou Dodrill is a middle school science teacher in the Scottsdale, Arizona Unified School District. Tracey received her B.S. degree in journalism and communications with an emphasis in public relations from the University of Florida. She continued her graduate studies in communications at Southwestern. Tracey spent the first fifteen years of her career serving as a public information officer for a sheriff and two district attorneys in Florida. Relocating to Arizona, she returned to academia, completing a Post Baccalaureate Teacher Education Program for her K-8 teaching certification program and graduating magna cum laude. Her focus has always been teaching middle level science, and she has continues taking graduate classes online.