Emily Botein is an American

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producer. Botein is currently Vice President for Original Programming at

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, where she “works with colleagues to identify talent, produce pilots and launch shows”.https://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/explore/person/emily-botein Third Coast Festival biography Botein graduated high school from

Commonwealth School Commonwealth School, often referred to simply as Commonwealth, is a private, co-educational high school of about 150 students and 35 faculty members located in the downtown Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is acc ...

in 1987https://issuu.com/commonwealthschool/docs/cm_spring_2016-no_notes Commonwealth Magazine, spring 2016 and graduated from

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in 1991.https://acdc.amherst.edu/explore/asc:159641/asc:160473 Olio 1991, yearbook of Amherst College She was an appetizer cook at four-star New York restaurant

The Quilted Giraffe The Quilted Giraffe was a nouvelle cuisine fine dining establishment in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. The restaurant, founded by Barry Wine and his now ex-wife Susan, was first opened in New Paltz, New York, in 1975 and moved to 50th Stree ...

from 1992 until it closed in 1993. Botein used her unemployment money from that job to move to

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to pursue an internship at WAMU's Derek McGinty Show and work at the Folk Life office. Botein's first full-time radio job came in 1999, making pieces about food for

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. Botein helped launch The Next Big Thing at

, and served as its senior producer until its last episode in 2005. As an independent producer since then, she has contributed to shows including

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and

American Routes ''American Routes'' is a weekly two-hour public radio program that presents the breadth and depth of the American musical and cultural landscape. Hosted by Nick Spitzer, ''American Routes'' is syndicated by 225 stations, with over half a million ...

. Botein won a Peabody Award in 2010 for her work producing The Promised Land. Botein had been a producer at

when the

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was attacked., and co-produced WNYC's radio special ''Living 9/11'' in 2011. In 2015, she was promoted to the position of Vice President for On-Demand Content in 2015. She has helped create many shows for

, including Death, Sex and Money, Here's the Thing with Alec Baldwin, and

The New Yorker Radio Hour ''The New Yorker Radio Hour'' is a radio show and podcast produced by ''The New Yorker'' and WNYC Studios. It is hosted by David Remnick, who has been editor of ''The New Yorker'' since 1998. The first episode of ''The New Yorker Radio Hour'' ...

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