Ole Saetrum Opgaard. Traci attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. Immediately after her undergraduate studies, she entered the Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Concordia University-Irvine and graduated after one year. Traci worked as a Medical/Surgical/Telemetry Registered Nurse for three years before going back to pursue her Master of Science in Nursing at the University of California-Irvine.