Tracy Mitrano, PhD, JD ’95, is a distinguished visiting professor in the Brooks School and in the Ann S. Bowers College Department of Information Science at Cornell University.

Professor Mitrano was the Academic Dean of the Trust Assurance and Cybersecurity (TAC) certificate program at University of Massachusetts Amherst.  For twelve years, she served as Cornell’s Director of Information Technology Policy.  She has taught in Human Ecology, and then in the Computer Information Science program in the 2000’s.

Professor Mitrano was the Democratic candidate for Congress in New York’s 23rd District in 2018 and 2020.

Professor Mitrano earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester, her Ph.D. from Binghamton University in American History, and her J.D. from Cornell Law School.