KERI POTTS and other notable guests joined the Travis County Sheriff’s Office at the August 5, 2014 the ATHLETE: the POSITIVE CHAMPION bystander intervention summit. Keri shared her story about surviving an attempted rape and how to be proactive in being a positive bystander. Keri has been senior director, communications for college sports in ESPN’s communications department since April 2013. She coordinates strategic communications for all college sports events and studio content, including the SEC Network, college football and the College Football Playoff, men’s and women’s basketball, NCAA Championships including the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament, all other college sports, ESPNU, Longhorn Network, ESPN Regional Television’s collegiate offerings and related content and businesses. She is based in Atlanta. After college, Potts joined NCAA in Indianapolis as assistant director, communications until joining ESPN in Bristol as a senior publicist in 2003. There she worked publicizing the NFL, NBA and ESPN Original Entertainment, ESPN Films and the award-winning 30 for 30 documentary series. Additionally, she oversaw publicity for ESPN Content Development’s live events – The ESPYs and ESPN’s New Year’s Eve special and led PR efforts for the launch of espnW, ESPN’s first dedicated women’s business. In 2010, Potts founded afightbackwoman.com to chronicle her court case and recovery and that same year wrote about surviving an attempted rape while on vacation in Rome, Italy, for Marie Claire magazine. Potts prosecuted her attacker overseas and he ultimately pled guilty to sexual assault and simple assault. Her story has been covered by the Travel Channel, Discovery ID and USA Today. Currently, she volunteers as a rape crisis counselor at Atlanta’s Grady Hospital and is a national speaker on victims’ advocacy and anti-sexual violence. From 2011-2013, she was a state certified sexual assault crisis counselor for Connecticut.

• published: 22 Nov 2014
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