Tracy LaQuey Parker is the Senior Vice President of Business Development for Parker Solutions Group. She is extensively involved with the University of Texas at Austin, serving as a member of the Advisory Council for the College of Natural Sciences and on its executive committee as Member at Large. She helped to found the UTeach Advisory Council and currently serves as Chair Emeritus. Additionally she is a member of the UT System Chancellor's Council and the Chancellor’s Council Executive Committee. She was named to the UT Foundation Board in 2020 and currently serves as the Treasurer. Tracy also serves as member or officer in a number of boards and advisory councils including the Texas Tribune (Secretary), the Texas Foundation for Innovative Communities (Chair), the Wittliff Collections, the Internet Hall of Fame, MassChallenge Texas, the Permanent Legacy Foundation, and TreeFolks.

Prior to her current position she was Director of The UTeach Institute at The University of Texas at Austin, which she founded in 2006 to replicate the nationally recognized UTeach math and science teacher preparation program that began at UT in 1997. In eight years, the Institute has replicated UTeach at almost 50 universities in the U.S. Prior to her successful tenure with the UTeach Institute, Tracy worked in the Chief Technology Office of Cisco System where she founded Cisco’s Worldwide Education focus and Cisco’s Advanced Internet Initiatives team in the early 1990’s. Additionally, she managed Cisco’s participation in worldwide K–12 educational Internet programs including the Global Schoolhouse Project, and she initiated and managed Cisco’s extensive participation in various Internet Society activities internationally. During this time she participated in the Federation of American Research Networks (FARNET), serving as Treasurer, and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), serving as chair of several working groups.

In addition to conference papers, journal and magazine articles, Ms. LaQuey Parker is the author of two best-selling books, The User’s Directory of Computer Networks (Digital Press) and The Internet Companion: A Beginner’s Guide to Global Networking (Addison-Wesley). The Internet Companion was the first trade book on the Internet, published in 1992, and featured a foreword by Vice President Al Gore. At one time it was number one on Publisher’s Weekly best selling computer books nationally and was a best seller worldwide, translated into Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Polish, French, and Indonesian in addition to being adapted for the European Community (The European Internet Companion). Also notably, The Internet Companion was a pioneer in online publishing, the first commercial book to be made available for free on the Internet in 1993 while simultaneously being sold in hardcopy in bookstores. During the intense growth of the Internet in the 1990’s, Tracy frequently gave keynotes, seminars and presentations in the U.S. and internationally. She was profiled in On The Internet (a publication of the Internet Society), The Australian (Australia's national newspaper), Tecno 2000 (a Spanish technology publication) and featured on the cover of the Japanese Asahi Pasocon technology magazine.

Ms. LaQuey Parker was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in September 2017. She also received the national UTeach STEM Educators Association award for distinguished service in May 2017.