Christine M. Tracy is a writer, journalist, rhetorician, and Teilhardian scholar. She holds a Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she studied the evolution of media and worked as a founding editor of one of the web’s first e-zine, Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine. Inspired by the “noosphere,” Teilhard’s word for collective thought energy, Tracy coined the term “newsphere” and wrote The Newsphere: Understanding the News and Information Environment (Peter Lang 2012) to explain the paradox of the current news environment. She believes the energy of the noosphere can enhance collective evolution and wrote The Mystic As Everyman (Thought Catalog 2018) to help readers connect their “insides with their outsides.”

She is a member of the Council of Scholar Advisors for The Teilhard Project and has published scholarly essays exploring Teilhard’s relationship to progressive disciplines, including media ecology and integral theory. She has reported for The Ann Magazine, The Albany Times Union, and other news outlets, and her non-fiction work has appeared in the University of Michigan’s Bear River Review. She lives in Boulder, Colorado, where she skis, swims, hikes, and is engaged with progressive ideas and spiritual communities.