Emily is the vice president for original programming at WNYC Studios, helping to launch podcasts and nurture ongoing programs.
Emily Botein appears in the following:
Feeling Lost or Stuck? Try Craigslist, says John Wilson.
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
The filmmaker behind HBO’s How To with John Wilson shares how his hobbies, like checking Craigslist ads obsessively, make him feel more deeply connected.
Revisiting Ellen Burstyn at 81
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
We’re listening back to one of Anna’s favorite episodes, when actor Ellen Burstyn invited us into her apartment for a sprawling interview about her past and present.
Keeping Score: A Year Inside a Divided Brooklyn High School
Friday, September 09, 2022
By some measures, New York City has the most segregated school system in the country. Four high schools in Brooklyn are focussing their hopes for change on an unlikely target: sports.
Keeping Score: A Year Inside a Divided Brooklyn High School
Friday, September 09, 2022
By some measures, New York City has the most segregated school system in the country. Four high schools in Brooklyn are focussing their hopes for change on an unlikely target: sports.
Big Freedia Bounces Back
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Big Freedia is a reality TV star and fixture in New Orleans' bounce scene. But days after Hurricane Katrina, she was sleeping on the street outside of the city's convention center.
Keeping Score: Part 4
Thursday, June 30, 2022
After the Jaguars compete in the city championship, students and coaches ask: was it all worth it?
Keeping Score: Part 3
Thursday, June 23, 2022
What does it mean to lead a team in an anti-racist way?
Keeping Score: Part 2
Thursday, June 16, 2022
How did the schools in the John Jay building become divided in the first place?
Keeping Score: Part 1
Thursday, June 09, 2022
Two sports programs – rivals under a single roof – are set to merge. Students ask what it will take for the building to live up to its new motto: “We Are One.”
The End of This Experiment
Thursday, June 02, 2022
For The Experiment’s final episode, a meditation on our strange, sometimes beautiful, often frustrating country
Teenage Life After Genocide
Thursday, May 12, 2022
The Experiment revisits the story of Aséna Tahir Izgil, a Uyghur teen adjusting to life in the U.S. after escaping China’s genocide of her people.
Judge Judy’s Law
Thursday, May 05, 2022
For decades, Americans have been bypassing the court system and settling their disputes on Judge Judy. But can people really find justice in a TV courtroom?
One American Family’s Debt to Ukraine
Thursday, March 10, 2022
The story of one Jewish American family debunks a myth that Putin tells about Ukraine.
El Sueño de SPAM
Thursday, February 17, 2022
Thirty years after the Hormel strike, a mysterious disease spreads among SPAMtown’s new workforce.
Uncle SPAM
Thursday, February 03, 2022
In World War II, the American Dream was exported across the world, one SPAM can at a time.
In Between Pro-life and Pro-choice
Thursday, December 16, 2021
Rebecca Shrader had always thought of abortion as a black-and-white issue. But when she became pregnant, she started to see the gray.
What Does It Mean to Give Away Our DNA?
Thursday, October 28, 2021
As excitement about genetic testing grows, one Navajo geneticist considers the future of the field and whether her people should be a part of it.
Who Would Jesus Mock?
Thursday, October 14, 2021
The Atlantic’s Emma Green sits down with the editor-in-chief of Christian satire site the Babylon Bee to talk about mockery and the line between making fun and doing harm.
A Uyghur Teen’s Life After Escaping Genocide
Thursday, August 19, 2021
The Uyghur refugee Aséna Tahir Izgil escaped the genocide of her people in China. Now she’s trying to be a teenager in America.
