Keri Potts ESPN Sr. Director of Communications

Keri Potts ESPN Sr. Director of Communications

Released Sunday, 31st December 2017
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Keri Potts ESPN Sr. Director of Communications

Keri Potts ESPN Sr. Director of Communications

Keri Potts ESPN Sr. Director of Communications

Keri Potts ESPN Sr. Director of Communications

Sunday, 31st December 2017
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This week the guys talk to Keri Potts, a senior director of communications at ESPN. Potts is responsible for setting the strategic communications efforts for all college sports event and studio content. In almost 15 years at ESPN, she has publicized properties ranging from the NFL and NBA, to ESPN Films and its inaugural slate of the award-winning 30 for 30 documentary series, The ESPYS and the launch of espnW, ESPN's first dedicated women's business. She joined ESPN from the NCAA in 2003 where she had served as a writer and editor.The Smithtown, N.Y. (Long Island)-native was co-captain of the Syracuse University women's volleyball team and remains its first and only first-team Academic All-American, graduating with her B.S. and M.S. from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.Beyond sports, Potts is known for her work the past six years as a victims' advocate, a national anti-sexual violence speaker and rape crisis counselor, having chronicled her own assault and international prosecution of her attacker in 2008, for Marie Claire magazine, the Travel Channel and Discovery ID, and on her blog afightbackwoman.com. Potts has served as a victims advocate for the Milford Rape Crisis Center (Milford, Conn.), Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital and now volunteers with the Gwinnett Rape Crisis Center in Georgia. She also serves on the Diversity & Inclusion Council of the NBA's Atlanta Hawks and the Atlanta Tip Off/Naismith Board of Directors. In 2017, she was named ESPN's Volunteer of the Year and is on the Board of Pathways to Safety International, the only organization to help Americans sexually assaulted abroad.

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