Tracie is a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker, who also holds both a KSDE building level and district level leadership license. Currently, she works as the Director of Student Support Programs in Kansas City Kansas Public Schools and is the owner of True Resilience Consulting (https://www.trueresilienceconsulting.com/). Prior to that, Mrs. Chauvin served as the Coordinator of Social Emotional Learning in KCKPS and spent more than a decade serving the Shawnee Mission and Kansas City Kansas School Districts as a school social worker. Mrs. Chauvin works to build community resilience through serving on the Board of Directors of ReDiscovering You (2021-22), the Kansas School Social Worker Association (2020-current), Alive and Well KC (2018-2021), serving on the KSDE School Mental Health Advisory Council (2021-current), leading community awareness activities on resilience and mental health education, delivering counseling services, and providing consultation and professional development on trauma informed care and resilience, social emotional learning, and mental health. When not being active in the community, she spends time with her husband, Gabriel, their two dogs, Bob and Bear, and with friends and family.

Nominator says, "Tracie is always learning new strategies, new practices, and new research and data pertaining to mental health in order to help advance current and future practices, ensure better outcomes for those being served, and continue to provide wraparound support to students, families, and staff."