tracy ditucci ferreira brings 15 years of experience in global health and the nonprofit sector, working at the intersection of climate change and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and across health systems strengthening, policy advocacy, community engagement, and organizational strategy.
prior to joining verge, tracy held senior program management and technical advisory roles at Ipas, a global reproductive justice organization, where she led high-value, multi-country program portfolios spanning health systems strengthening, policy and advocacy, and community engagement. she served as ipas’s lead for the uk fcdo’s flagship women’s srhr programs, preventing maternal deaths (pmd) and women’s integrated sexual health (wish), overseeing implementation across africa and asia, and led technical strategy and proposal development for with dividend, securing funding and expanding ipas’s geographic reach in francophone africa. she also brings experience managing sida and global affairs canada awards, guiding multi-country initiatives from concept and fundraising through implementation, evaluation, learning, adaptation, and end-of-program transition.
tracy’s climate-focused work integrates technical strategy, program leadership, and capacity building. she helped shape the emerging climate-srhr field, participated in a global consultation to set research priorities on climate and srhr, and contributed to a 2024 lancet planetary health publication. as technical lead for multi-year climate and srh initiatives in nepal and indonesia, she supported community-led climate adaptation solutions that strengthened women’s reproductive health and livelihood outcomes. she also established fund the frontlines, a rapid-response grantmaking mechanism, and coached staff globally to embed climate justice lenses into strategy and operations. she has developed practical tools – including vulnerability analyses and climate-SRHR assessment frameworks – supported integration of climate considerations across organizational strategy, measurement, and operations, and contributed to ipas’s first carbon reduction plan. across all this work, she brings a systems-minded, collaborative approach grounded in community realities and sustainable impact.
beyond her nonprofit and technical work, tracy integrates embodied wellbeing into her life and practice. she is a ryt-500 yoga teacher, certified restorative therapeutic yoga teacher, breath coach, and mindfulness meditation practitioner. she is passionate about supporting women’s whole-person health across the life course and offering practices that cultivate rest, awareness, adaptability, and resilience.
tracy holds a ba in international studies from nc state university with a focus on gender and applied anthropology, alongside advanced training in climate science, climate literacy, and embodied wellness practices. her work reflects a commitment to combining technical excellence and operational pragmatism with holistic, human-centered approaches that strengthen systems, support communities, and foster wellbeing.
