Liza Potter

Liza Potter is Coney Island Prep’s Chief Academic Officer. Most recently before joining the CIP team, Liza served as Head of Schools at KIPP New Jersey, where she managed a portfolio of middle and high schools in Newark and Camden, and as Deputy Chief Academic Officer at Mastery Charter Schools in Philadelphia. At Mastery, Liza led the network’s vision and strategy for K-12 English language arts, social studies, world languages, ELL/bilingual education, and the arts, and spearheaded a comprehensive redesign of the network’s early literacy program to align with the science of reading.

Liza began her twenty-year public education career as a high school English and writing teacher in North Carolina before relocating to Brooklyn, where she had the privilege to serve on the founding leadership teams of the Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice and the Urban Assembly School for Green Careers. Liza holds a M.Ed. from Bank Street College of Education, where she earned school district leader certification in both New York and New Jersey, and both an MAT in Secondary English Education and a BA in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.