Tracee Ellis is an educator and small business owner in the greater Indianapolis area. Passionate about the arts, Tracee seeks ways to implement creative opportunities at every turn. Tracee is a Career Coach at Ben Davis High School where she helps seniors and juniors navigate post-secondary plans, assists with financial aid and 21st Century Scholarships, as well as entering the workforce or applying to colleges and trade schools. When she is not at Ben Davis, she works at Lynhurst 7th & 8th Grade Center as an AVID Tutor Mentor helping college-bound 8th graders prepare for college readiness through college visits, instilling study skills, peer-tutoring, money management and budgeting, and real-world discussions by way of student-led Socratic Seminars. In addition to Career Coaching and AVID Tutor Mentoring, Tracee is a Coach for the Entrepreneurship Class in the Career Training sector of Wayne Township Adult Education, lending her own experience and expertise as an owner/operator to aspiring business owners where they focus on everything from ideation and iteration to legal structures, sales and marketing, funding, supply and demand, economics, market research and competition, and minimum viable products. When Tracee is not in school, she enjoys teaching pottery classes, sewing, and reading multiple books at a time between her Kindle, audiobooks, and hard copies!