Tracy LaQuey Parker, ’86

LaQuey Parker was a pioneering advocate of the early Internet and its educational benefits. She wrote The Internet Companion, the first commercial book to be simultaneously sold in bookstores and made available free on the Internet. She helped create educational Internet programs, founded Cisco Systems’ Worldwide Education focus in the Chief Technology Office, and championed providing Internet access to educators throughout Texas. She later founded the UTeach Institute, which replicates UT Austin's nationally recognized UTeach math and science teacher preparation program, now at more than 45 U.S. universities. She later received the National UTeach STEM Educators Association Exceptional Leadership and Service Award. An active member of the UT College of Natural Sciences Advisory Council, LaQuey Parker also is a 2017 inductee in the Internet Hall of Fame.

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