Tracey Ryniec is a Zacks Stock Strategist. She manages the Insider Trader and Value Investor services. Prior to joining Zacks, she litigated complex securities and insurance cases representing tech titans and Fortune 100 companies in San Francisco and Silicon Valley at the law firms of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison -now defunct, a victim of the dot-com bust- and Cooley LLP. She can now be happily found covering value stocks for Zacks.com in Chicago, in addition to running her trading service portfolios. Tracey graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in history. She attended Princeton University where she studied in the Near Eastern Studies department before graduating with a Masters in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago.