Julie is a dance artist, journalist, and arts manager interested in designing transformative performance experiences that connect art, artists, and audiences through well-examined curatorial approaches and community engagement. Currently the company manager for Liss Fain Dance, and a gallery guide at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Potter also conducts media projects for Mission District arts organizations such as the Red Poppy Art House and ODC School. She writes about the arts for publications including the San Francisco Bay Guardian, In Dance, Theater Bay Area Magazine, Dance/USA Journal, with contemporary art festival coverage for L.A.’s pop-up newsroom Engine28.com and Portland’s Willamette Week. In New York, Potter worked at The Juilliard School and Weber Shandwick Travel and Lifestyle Practice. She was a Fellow in the 2011 NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Theater and the 2010 NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Dance. She was also awarded DCA’s 2010 Gary Parks Emerging Writer Scholarship and a 2008 Access Dance/USA Scholarship. Serves on the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards committee, the Dance/USA 2012 Conference planning committee and formerly on Dance/NYC’s Junior Committee and NYJL’s Nonprofit Boards Clearinghouse. Julie earned a B.S. in dance and arts administration from Butler University. Read more about her projects at DanceFeast and juliecpotter.com.