Tracy Ane Brooks grew up in the mountains outside of Boulder Colorado. A graduate of Boulder High School, Tracy pursued a career in hand wrought silversmith jewelry creation. In 1989, Tracy donated jewelry from her business titled "Black Wolf Silver" to a newly formed wolf sanctuary in Southern Colorado. This donation changed the path of her life forever. Tracy has been instrumental in building Mission: Wolf, a captive wolf sanctuary, and solar power nature center, located in Southern Colorado. An artist and silversmith, Tracy has created many pieces as fundraisers for Mission: Wolf.  
Tracy's biggest contribution to Mission: Wolf is her work with wolves. For nearly thirty years, Tracy has walked wolves into schools, universities, and museums like the Smithsonian Institute, prisons systems, and rehab facilities. It takes a unique personality to handle one or more gray wolves with confidence, in public. And with Tracy’s help, the Mission: Wolf educational program reached countless everyday people through seated programs across the United States. And millions more through different media venues, including T.V. news segments and other programs like ABC, CBS class of 2000 & The NBC Today Show 12-4-1994, Mr. Rogers Neighborhood show and other public or cable specials and a Los Lobo’s stage, on E-Town Radio. 
Tracy possesses a deep understanding of the instinctual connection we share with animals. A decade after Tracy began her work as a volunteer for the Mission: Wolf sanctuary, a horse, came into her life. Tracy became fascinated with natural horsemanship and embarked on a ten-year study of horse training. Desiring to discover for herself the magic behind horse whispering. The biggest lesson Tracy took away from her homeschooled horse-woman-ship, was to listen to the horse on an intuitive level and mirror the animal’s natural behavior and attitude. As Tracy became successful working with equines, she began to apply what she was doing consciously, with great success on the wolves. Predators and prey, all have the same root foundation of behavior: flight, fight, and freeze.  
Tracy was so inspired by what she was learning, working with these animals that she began work on a book in 2009. Not sure what direction the book was heading, Tracy spent as much time outside in the field with animals, and used her experiences to guide her. Since the publication of “A Walk in Connection” in late 2014, to date, the book has gotten five star reviews and won two finalist awards, The International Book Awards 2016 and Reader’s Favorite International Book Awards 2016. Tracy also shares what she has learned from the animal teachers, spreading her message of connection, with hundreds of students and trainers from all over the world.
Tracy currently lives with Kent, her dogs, horses, cats and chickens.