Sister Tracey Horan
Biography
Sister Tracey is a native of Indianapolis. She is currently in between ministries.
During the Sisters of Providence 41st General Chapter in 2026, Sister Tracey was elected as a General Councilor for 2026-31. She will be officially installed into the position during a Eucharistic Liturgy on Saturday, September 5, in the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods.
Sister Tracey entered the Congregation in September 2014. She professed first vows in 2017 and perpetual vows in 2022.
She graduated from Roncalli High School in Indianapolis and earned a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and middle childhood education from the University of Dayton in Ohio.
Prior to being elected to the 2026-31 leadership team, Sister Tracey ministered as the Associate Director of Education and Advocacy for the Kino Border Initiative in Nogales, Arizona.
Sister Tracey’s additional ministries include Bilingual Community Organizer for IndyCAN (2016-19); and Education Coordinator for the Kino Border Initiative in Nogales, Arizona, and Sonora, Mexico.
Written by this sister
This sister has written content published on this website. Here is some recent content, or you can view her full author listing here.
- Border Stories: Opening the Door to the Kingdom God Wants
- Can I Stay Here Forever? The Answer is YES.
- What is asylum?
- A journey to wider acceptance and love: Sister Tracey Horan and immigration
- Ministry at the border: belleza (beauty) of binationality
Read more
Sister Tracey is featured in the following content on the Sisters of Providence website:
- Caring for Those in Need: Serving God’s Children at the Border
- Finding Pilgrims of Hope at the Arizona/Mexico Border
- Sisters of Providence presence expanding at the border
- On healing touch and the wall at the border
- Education, advocacy and service with immigrants part of sister’s border experience
- Forever yes! Final vows ceremony for Sisters Arrianne Whittaker and Tracey Horan
- What does it mean to love my neighbor as myself? A visit to the border
- One millennial’s journey to life as a Sister of Providence
- You are invited to celebrate vows, share in a sister’s story
- Faces of our future: a new generation of Sisters of Providence
- Newsnotes: winter 2019 updates from the Sisters of Providence
- Get to know Sister Tracey Horan, SP
- Sister Tracey Horan and Faith in Indiana: working for justice
- Faith leaders hold vigil at Clay County Justice Center
- Firing up hope: SP prayer ministries
- The bond of friendship leads to lives as sisters
- Sisters profess first, perpetual vows
- Vows ceremony for Sisters Dina Bato, Anna Fan and Tracey Horan
- Sister Tracey Horan recognized by USCCB
- Disrupting apathy and injustice: Sister Tracey Horan and World Meeting of Popular Movements
- Mission novice blessing 2016
- Meet some newer members
- Baking with Sister Ann Kevin O’Connor
- Sharing their voice by ‘Giving Voice’
- Tracey and Anna enter novitiate
- Care of Earth attracts new members
- A call to discernment
- Anna Fan entrance
- Tracey Horan begins an exciting new journey with the SPs
- New postulant enters Sisters of Providence
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