Julie Burstein

Artist, Brainstormer, Consultant, Idea generator, Journalist, Parent, Producer, Writer/Editor

Julie Burstein is a Peabody Award-winning radio producer who has spent her working life in conversation with highly creative people, interviewing, probing, guiding, and creating public radio programs with them. In her first book, "Spark: How Creativity Works," she maps out some of the coordinates and dimensions of creativity. No one can exactly explain creativity (who would try? who would want to?), but Julie offers a tour through some of its important byways; she shines a beam onto its mysterious workings in a way that is illuminating and might just help some of us find more of that dimension within ourselves, and put it to good use. Julie is the host of the podcast Pursuit of Spark, which features conversations about creative approaches to the challenges, possibilities, and pleasures of everyday life. She often speaks about creativity at museums, corporations, and universities, and is sought after as a panel moderator for venues such as the American Museum of Natural History, WNYC, The World Science Festival and the Brooklyn Book Festival. In 2000, Julie designed "Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen" for Public Radio International, and she led the creative team at WNYC for many years. As a producer, she’s noted for her ability to create successful new radio programming and live events, her skill at helping talent from other media become effective radio personalities, and for her own engaging on-air presence as guest host on "The Leonard Lopate Show." She’s produced radio series for Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic, and reported about a wide variety of arts and culture, from the secret to making Easter Peeps and Bunnies and the art of pumpkin carving for NPR, to stories about design, music, dance, theater and visual arts for Studio 360 and Marketplace.

creative approaches to the challenges, possibilities and pleasures of everyday life and work.

asking questions, creating radio programs and podcasts, Creativity & Innovation, discovering powerful stories and teaching others to tell them, interviewing

making coffee mugs and teacups. I love making pots, and spent the last two years just making mugs to give to my creative teams at Studio 360 and Spark.