Tracye McQuirter is an American public health nutritionist and a Vegan/Plant-based[1] author who appears in the 2024 documentary, You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment.

from Amherst College in 1988[5] and her Masters in Public Health Nutrition (MPH) from New York University in 2003.

[4] Actor and activist Dick Gregory introduced McQuirter to vegetarianism in 1986 when he gave a talk on the subject at Amherst during her sophomore year.

During her second semester, when she was an exchange student at Howard University, she discovered what she later described as a "large Black vegan and vegetarian community in Washington D.C." This group, which was also influenced by Gregory and his book Dick Gregory’s Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat: Cookin’ With Mother Nature, taught her how to be a vegan.

"[15] In 2024, VegNews listed McQuirter as one of the "17 Black Vegan Chefs Redefining Plant-Based Food and Community."