Tracye Strichik

For more than 25 years, Dr. Strichik has enjoyed the opportunity to serve children and their families in the classroom, through collaboration with school systems, state and federal government, higher education, business, and community partners. Prior to joining the Alabama Expanded Learning Alliance, she was the Director of the Alabama Reading Initiative at the Alabama State Department of Education, Alabama's First Class Pre-K Director, and Senior Director at the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education, where she led departmental efforts and coordinated all aspects of research and program evaluation and oversaw professional learning and efforts concerning Higher Education. She is a graduate of Auburn University, Auburn University Montgomery, and University of Alabama Birmingham.