Tribal Chief Award
Tracey G. Wiley
Executive Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Bally's Corporation
“Carries a cow’s tail”
Tracey joined Bally’s as a consultant and assumed her current, permanent role in 2022. Prior to joining the Bally’s team, she had completed two consecutive gubernatorial appointments as the Director of the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity (SBSD) for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Eager to roll up her sleeves when appointed in 2014 by Virginia’s 72nd Governor Terence R. McAuliffe, Tracey directed the merger of the former Department of Minority Business Enterprise (DMBE) and Department of Business Assistance (DBA). Under her leadership in FY 2016, the Commonwealth spent 37% or $2.4B with small, women- and minority-owned businesses (SWAM).
Tracey was reappointed in 2018 by the 73rd Governor, Ralph S. Northam to continue her work in positioning the new agency to support small, women and minority owned businesses (SWaM). By 2020, she had oversight for the deployment of over $100 million in small business recovery grants to more than 3,000 Virginia small businesses.
Wiley has served numerous boards nationally and is also founder and CEO of Rainmaker Industries Group, LLC. The consultancy is a collection of her work to leverage relationships for the sole purpose of elevating communities of color and creating access to models that build generational wealth for diverse people. A native of Richmond, Virginia and an alum of Old Dominion University, she is mom to two young adults, Army Captain, Lauren F. Jeter, and DeWayne F. Jeter, III, a current student at the Community College of Rhode Island, studying Cybersecurity.