Tracy Johnson Messinger

Tracy Johnson is a senior program officer focused on user experience and innovation for the Gates Foundation’s integrated delivery team. She’s responsible for creating a vision and building capacity for applying human-centered design across the foundation’s portfolio of grants. Previously, Johnson had over 15 years of experience in applying anthropology and design to business problems and social issues on behalf of Fortune 500 clients as well as within many areas of international development, notably education, human rights, violence against women and children, and trafficking in persons. Her positions included director of ethnographic research for Nurun and research director for Context-Based Research Group.