Tracie Potts is vice chair of the USC Center for Health Journalism Advisory Board. As the center's 2017 National Fellow, her “Forgotten Voices” project on the Affordable Care Act was honored with a Dateline Award from the Society of Professional Journalists Washington, DC chapter. 

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 200+ local morning news programs, MSNBC, CNBC and foreign news organizations. Tracie also reported 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 Washington, she was based in the network’s Los Angeles bureau and served as an anchor and reporter at local television stations across the South.

In 2021 Mrs. Potts was named Executive Director of the Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College, where she creates and manages professional public policy experiences for undergraduate students. She is a board member of Learning Heroes, Urban Rural Action, ASTRO America and the News Literacy Project. Her lesson on NLP's digital learning platform has been used by more than 100,000 students and educators worldwide. She also taught journalism courses at Knoxville College and Biola University. 

Potts completed Northwestern University’s Accelerated Masters Program, earning Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from the Medill School of Journalism in 1991.