Julie Potter is a coach, writer and creative strategist working across arts and culture, public life and higher education sectors. Based in Vienna since 2020, she coaches artists and changemakers internationally as part of the National Arts Strategies Leadership Coaching Roster and leads editorial 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 also worked as the Creative Ecosystem Senior Program Manager at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts designing public programs including YBCA:You, at the intersection of art and wellness, and YBCA Fellows, deploying creative practice for social change. She has been a lecturer in Stanford University's Arts In Context course and teaches on topics of performance, public engagement and arts criticism.

Julie completed her MA as part of the inaugural class of Wesleyan University’s Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance. She was in residence at the Summer Forum for Inquiry and Exchange, a National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellow, a consultant for the Creative Capital Artist Retreat and the first Writer in Residence at ODC Theater. Julie was also a Fellow in both the NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Theater at USC Annenberg and in Dance at the American Dance Festival. Prior to moving to San Francisco in 2009, she worked at The Juilliard School in New York City.

New View Profile | In Dance

Radio Interview | SF’s Women-Run Arts Organizations

Writer in Residence Interview | In Dance