John and Tracy Tien have been happily attending Wasatch since 1998 and live in Atlanta, Georgia.

John retired from U.S. Federal Government service in 2023 as the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security in the Biden-Harris Administration. Since then he has taken on a Noah’s Ark portfolio approach: 2 corporate boards (Union Pacific Railroad and SAIC); 2 veterans non-profit boards (Avalon Action Alliance and The Mission Continues); 2 foreign policy non-profit boards (the World Affairs Council of Atlanta and the Carter Center); and 2 professor of practice/fellow roles (Georgia Tech and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School). As a retired U.S. Army officer and someone who has sworn an oath to the Constitution several times, John has also taken on active leadership and support roles with Democracy Forward, Foreign Policy for America, and New Politics.

Tracy is helping to support the arts and her community by volunteering weekly at The High Museum of Art as an educational docent for elementary school students from the greater Atlanta area and serving on the board for the docent corps. Inspired by Wasatch’s “twenty summers,” Tracy is fulfilling a long-held dream to learn how to paint watercolors. As a whole food plant-based vegan who is also gluten-free, she welcomes recipe ideas; and is a lifelong reader, literally any good book recommendations!

Their two daughters (Amanda and Rebecca) grew up in Camp Wasatch and are now fully grown with Amanda living in Philadelphia with her husband, Dr. Sam Kaplan, and Rebecca in Atlanta.