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Tracie Potts
Executive Director
Tracie Potts is the executive director of the Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College, which she joined in October 2021 following three decades as an award-winning broadcast journalist, most recently as senior Washington Correspondent for NBC News Channel, the affiliate service of NBC News. Based on Capitol Hill, she covered four Presidential administrations, Congress and the federal government for 200+ local morning news programs, MSNBC, CNBC and foreign news organizations. She reported from abroad from the 2012 Olympics, the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Princess Kate, the selection of Pope Benedict and the death of Nelson Mandela. Before working in Washington, she was based in the network’s Los Angeles bureau and served as an anchor and reporter at local stations. As a 2017 Center for Health Journalism National Fellow, she reported “Forgotten Voices,” a project about the Affordable Care Act, which was honored with a Dateline Award from the DC chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. She has also received fellowships from the Loyola Marymount Journalist Law School, Mayo Clinic, National Press Foundation, Poynter Institute, the Journalism Center on Children and Families and the Radio Television News Directors Foundation. She was an instructor for NBC University and the News Literacy Project. Her lesson on NLP’s “Checkology” digital learning platform has been used by more than 100,000 students and educators worldwide. She also taught journalism at Knoxville College and Biola University. She was appointed to the National PTA Board of Directors, and served as a family engagement trainer and facilitator on its governance team. She also served as an adviser to the federally funded Statewide Family Engagement Center serving Maryland and Pennsylvania. She is currently an advisory board member for Urban Rural Action, advisory board chair for Learning Heroes and a board member of ASTRO America. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
