Tracy Fortmann is Superintendent at Fort Vancouver NHS, which is in Washington and Oregon. She began her career in the National Park Service as a graduate intern. With her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Political Science, her first position was in the Washington DC Office of Policy as a program and policy analyst. She also served as a speechwriter for the Director of the National Park Service and for other Department of the Interior officials. She held several key positions at Golden Gate National Recreation Area, including as a Management Assistant and later as the Chief of Communications, Legislation, Partnerships and Special Events. She was the lead for public planning and public affairs for the "Post to Park" transfer of the Presidio of San Francisco to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. In 2014, she was recognized as the National Park Service's Cultural Resources Superintendent. Tracy has raised her children in Vancouver and loves the Pacific Northwest. She found her niche at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site. As a complex, highly sensitive cultural resource site and an urban national park, she and park staff are afforded an almost infinite number of partnerships and other opportunities to daily make real connections with the American people. Tracy likes to share that she feels honored to work at Fort Vancouver, a national treasure, with employees, who are incredible public servants, who find each day a new day to do something special and make a difference.