Vera Institute of Justice

Tracey Wilmot serves as vice president and chief people officer at Vera, where she is a member of the Vera leadership team. Tracey is responsible for people strategy, benefits and compensation, employee engagement, talent acquisition, employee relations, and leader and staff development, including career pathing and succession planning.

Before joining Vera in 2020, Tracey worked at Iona University as human resources director, where as a member of the President’s Cabinet she successfully fulfilled a strategy for role building and talent acquisition that helped diversify faculty and staff. Tracey also spearheaded Iona’s first comprehensive compensation and benefits study and revised performance management and onboarding processes.

In addition to her work at Vera, Tracey serves as vice president of the board of directors and chair of the HR Committee for the Mental Health Association of Westchester, which works to promote mental health.

Tracey holds a master’s degree in human resource management from Cornell University.