Jennifer Tracey serves as Chief Program Officer at RIZE Massachusetts Foundation. She manages the strategic growth and implementation of RIZE’s programmatic initiatives, focusing on grants administration, community building and thought leadership. Jen brings over 25 years of public and private experience in health and human services in diverse settings and disciplines. In various roles, she has served at the federal, state, and local government levels, and at community-based non-profit organizations. This includes experience in evaluation, strategic planning, program development and implementation, cross systems collaboration, and strategic community mobilization.
Before joining RIZE, Jen served as the Director of the Mayor’s Office of Recovery Services (ORS), the first municipal substance use recovery office in the United States, where she led all substance use recovery policy and initiatives for the City of Boston. In this capacity, she also served on the Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund Advisory Council and was instrumental in developing recommendations for the expenditure of the Opioid Recovery and Remediation Trust Fund to mitigate the impacts of the opioid epidemic in the Commonwealth.
Prior to her time at the ORS, Jen served as the Director of the Office of Youth and Young Adult Services with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services. In this role, she provided direction and oversight to the development of innovative adolescent and young adult substance use programs focused on improving outcomes among this population and their families. Jen also formerly served as the Boston Regional Manager for the Massachusetts Bureau of Substance Addiction Services where she oversaw substance use prevention, intervention, and support services in Boston’s neighborhoods.