
Julie Sabatier
Julie Sabatier is a podcast producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Julie first joined OPB as a producer for "Think Out Loud" in 2008. She was also the creator and host of the public radio show and podcast "Rendered" until the show retired in 2015. Julie previously worked as the staff writer for Just Out, reported for Willamette Week, served as podcast producer for Bitch Magazine and produced stories for "The Splendid Table," NPR and "99% Invisible."
Julie graduated from Oberlin College with a bachelor's degree in English. She grew up in Baltimore, Maryland.
Latest Stories

‘The Evergreen’: ‘At Work With’ a bike bus captain, a tattoo artist and a coastal lifeguard
For our “At Work With” series, we talk to Pacific Northwesterners from different professions and ask them your questions about what it’s like to do what they do.

‘The Evergreen’: Portland’s Tribal Relations was once groundbreaking. What happened?
OPB reporter Alex Zielinski recently teamed up with Nika Bartoo-Smith, a reporter for Underscore Native News and ICT, to dig into the city of Portland’s relationship with tribal governments and Native communities. They join us to talk about what they’ve found.

‘The Evergreen’: How Oregon revolutionized IPAs
Portland-based freelance writer Jeff Alworth brings us the story of how Oregon hops changed IPAs, almost by accident.

‘The Evergreen’: OPB investigates decades-old allegations of abuse by St. Helens teacher
Former students at St. Helens High School say that in the 1980s, a teacher there groomed and sexually assaulted them.

‘At Work With’ a volunteer bike bus captain who makes the ride to school joyful and safe for Portland kids
Lauren McCune is one of the many parent volunteers who power Portland's "bike buses," which are convoys of school kids pedaling to school together.

‘The Evergreen’: Portland’s ‘frog taxi’ helps amphibians cross the road
Teams of dedicated volunteers are on-call from late winter to early spring to help Northern red-legged frogs safely cross Highway 30 to get from Forest Park to the Harborton wetland, where they breed.

‘OPB Politics Now’: An inside look at how OPB covers the Oregon Capitol
The OPB podcast team travels to Salem.

‘The Evergreen’: Behind the scenes at the Oregon State Capitol
We tagged along with OPB capitol reporter Dirk VanderHart for a day to see what’s going on behind the scenes of our state government.

‘The Evergreen’: ‘At Work With’ a cheesemaker, a garbage collector and an airport wildlife biologist
For our latest “At Work With” episode, we bring you along as we visit a queseria where Mexican cheese is made, hit the streets at dawn with a garbage collector and meet a biologist whose job it is to protect birds at the airport.

‘The Evergreen’: Vietnamese-Americans celebrate 50 years of living in the Pacific Northwest
This month marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. It’s also the anniversary of many Vietnamese families arriving to start a new life in the Pacific Northwest.