Tracy Mitrano is the director of IT Policy and Computer Policy and Law Programs for the Office of Information Technologies at Cornell. Elected to the EDUCAUSE Board in 2006, she served as Treasurer in 2007 and Secretary in 2008, and is now Vice President for the year 2009. She serves as chair of the Internet 2 InCommon Steering Committee and from 2004-2006 was co-chair of the Internet 2/EDUCAUSE Security Task Force, Law and Policy Team. Mitrano is a 2002 graduate of the Frye Institute, and since then a member of its faculty. Her education includes a J.D. from Cornell Law School, 1995, and a Ph.D. in American History from Binghamton University, 1989.

A member of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Program Committee, Mitrano is also faculty of the EDUCAUSE Leadership Institute and co-facilitator of the Seminars on Academic Computing. In 2003 the University of Iowa named her the Ada Stoflet Lecturer. In spring 2005, Mitrano taught an Internet Law class for the MiNE Program at the Universite Cattolica in Piacenza, Italy. At Cornell, Mitrano is an adjunct assistant professor in the Information Science Program where she teaches Information Science 515, "Culture, Law and Politics of the Internet."