TRACIE GUY-DECKER
ABOUT TRACIE
I’m a nerd. Or, if you’re feeling fancy, I’m an intellectual.
I know a lot about a lot of things, in part because I am in love with learning. But what I know doesn’t matter. Not really.
What matters is what I believe:
I believe people are more important than ideas.
I believe all human beings are worthy of love, respect, and kindness.
I believe in exercise.
I believe in holding multiple truths.
I believe in laughter and joy.
I believe vulnerability is sexy.
I believe witnessing sorrow is a gift and an obligation.
I believe race is a construct but racism is all too real.
I believe if I stop growing and learning, I’ll die.
I believe pop culture is anything but trivial.
I’m a reader and I’m a writer.
I love well-told stories. I love how metaphors make the abstract concrete. I love clear and powerful prose: the way its rhythms and cadence teach us, move us, help us grow.
Are you looking for the old-fashioned bio? I’ve got you. Tracie Guy-Decker is a podcaster, writer, and illustrator based in Baltimore, Maryland. With her sister, Emily Guy Birken, she co-hosts the podcast Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop Culture Comedy Podcast. As a freelance writer, she has authored articles and essays over her own byline for various online and in-print publications, ghostwritten for non-fiction authors, and written copy for non-profit organizations around the DMV. Her career has included stints in higher education both as a marketer and a fundraiser and in non-profits from museums to university publishers to community centers. She is the President of the Board of Directors of Jews United for Justice (since April 2025), and was the recipient of their Heschel Vision Award in 2023. Tracie attended the Divinity School of the University of Chicago for a masters degree and PhD coursework, and Oberlin College for her undergraduate studies.
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