Tracie Potts is the Executive Director of the Eisenhower Institute Gettysburg College, bringing a wealth of media experience focused on public policy, along with years of educational advocacy for and with students. Previously, Tracie spent 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 more than 200 local morning news programs, MSNBC, CNBC and foreign news organizations. Tracie is vice chair of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Advisory Board and a 2017 National Fellow. Other fellowships include the Loyola Marymount Journalist Law School, Mayo Clinic Journalist Residency, National Press Foundation, the Poynter Institute and the Journalism Center of Children and Families and the Michelle Clark Fellowship from the Radio Television News Directors Foundation. The lesson Tracie hosted on the News Literacy Project’s digital learning platform Checkology®, “InfoZones,” has been used by more than 100,000 students and educators worldwide, and in 2017 NLP honored her with the John S Carroll Journalist Fellow Award. Tracie earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.


