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Lyric Bowditch

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Lyric Bowditch joined the Dracopoulos-Bloomberg iDeas Lab in January 2026 as a Podcast and Live Event Producer. Before that, Lyric served as the Executive Producer of the nonprofit House of SpeakEasy, where she led the team behind the literary live-storytelling show Seriously Entertaining, including two co-productions with The New Yorker. Independently, she has also produced a podcast series on election trust research for the University of California San Diego and is developing an audio documentary for BBC Radio 4.

Previously, Lyric spent four years as a full-time staffer at the Freakonomics Radio Network, where she produced both weekly conversation podcasts and multi-voice narrative shows, including No Stupid Questions, People I (Mostly) Admire, and Freakonomics, M.D.. She developed and produced the Freakonomics limited series Off Leash — which was “highly recommended” by The New Yorker and one of CBC Radio’s “best podcasts of 2022.” She also served as the Freakonomics Radio Network’s video editor.

Other prior roles include producer for the podcasts HISTORY This Week and The Messy Parts, executive producer of the World Monuments Fund 60th Anniversary Summit, scriptwriter for National Park After Dark, and National Fellow at the Scholars Strategy Network.

Originally from Baltimore, Lyric grew up in Cairo, Egypt (2006-2016) and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. She earned a B.A. in English/French comparative literature and a minor in computer science from Barnard College, where she served as the editor for the Columbia Daily Spectator’s long-form magazine The Eye.