Tracy Novick comes to us with a variety of skills in management, community organizing and healthcare. She has a B.A. in Sociology from Vanderbilt University,Nashville, Tennessee, 1979. At Vanderbilt she directed the Vanderbilt Prison Project,lived in the Dismas Halfway House (house for students & ex-prisoners),received a National Science Foundation grant to study prison and family,coordinated health fairs in prisons and assisted in health fairs in Appalachia andurban areas, participated in the Women’s Health Care Project at Vanderbilt Medical center and the Urban Health Coalition, and was a teaching assistant in the PrisonLife course at Vanderbilt (1974 – 1981). As she worked in the prisons and communitiesof Tennessee, she realized her commitment was to helping empower people and make a difference in their lives. Healthcare became her passion and she began pre-nursing classes at Tennessee State University. During this time, she coordinated a LegislativeNewsletter and managed hotels and restaurants. Part of her management skills includedemploying ex-prisoners and training them for restaurant services.In 1984 she transferred to New Haven, Connecticut and received her nursingcertificate and her masters in Psychiatric- Mental Health Nursing at Yale University1987. She did medical nursing at the Veterans Hospital, an internship at a jail,and psychiatric nursing inpatient, outpatient, day hospitals at Yale University Hospital.During five years on an inpatient adolescent - young adult unit, she researched andpublished an article on Tourette’s Syndrome in Psychiatric nursing.In 1990, she became certified nationally as a Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist andwas employed by Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. She taught and coordinated care for Behavioral Emergencies in the Johns Hopkins Emergency Department. She also did some part time psychiatric work at Taylor hospitaltreating children, adults and geriatric patients.In 1992, she married and moved to California. She worked at Stanford UniversityMedical center on a medical psychiatric unit and then at San Francisco General Hospital7B, a unit that treated homeless, HIV, forensic psychiatric patients. She assistedin developing the mental health volunteers program at the American Red Cross.1994-1997, Tracy was employed in Seattle, Washington at Overlake hospital in theirCognitive Behavioral Program…Day Hospital and inpatient units.She returned to Marin County, California in 1997, with her family. She worked at the Marin Community Clinic from 1999 to 2005 as a nurse & specialist .Since 1997she has been taking courses at the UC Berkeley extension program in Adolescent & Child Treatment Program, self published a book ,participates in a variety of volunteers and committee positions: Diversity, Adoption Perspectives, Emergency Preparedness coordinator at schools, teaches Universal Infection Prevention at clinics and schools. Married to John Novick since 1992. They have four children: a birth daughter, a son
adopted at birth in the U.S. and adopted a brother & sister (4 & 6) from Ethiopia in 2006.