Julie Potter’s career spans creative work in arts and culture, public life and higher education. Since 2020, she has been based in Vienna coaching artists and changemakers internationally as part of the National Arts Strategies Leadership Coaching Collective and working as an editorial specialist and writer at Central European University, building public access to academic research in the social sciences and humanities.
Previously, as the Director of ODC Theater in San Francisco, she provided executive and artistic leadership for season programming, public engagement and artist residencies. Julie was also the Creative Ecosystem Senior Program Manager at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts designing public programs including YBCA:You, a membership at the intersection of art and wellness, and YBCA Fellows, a series of cohort-based think tanks deploying creative practice toward social change.
Julie completed her MA as part of the inaugural class of Wesleyan University’s Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance and has written extensively about dance and performance. She enjoys shaping and sharing civic sites that build a sense of place and purpose.
