About Esther Wojcicki

Esther Wojcicki is a thirty-year veteran English-journalism teacher who founded the Palo Alto High School journalism program and built it into the largest high school journalism program in the nation, now called the Media Arts program to encompass all the new media. More than six hundred students now elect to take media arts in one form or another. The program includes four magazines, one newspaper, one television broadcast program, four websites, one online website program, video production classes, yearbook, and photography, taught by five journalism/media arts teachers. The program will be moving into a state of the art 22,000 sq.ft. Media Arts Center on the Palo Alto High School campus in August 2014. Wojcicki was 2002 California State Teacher of the Year, holds an honorary doctorate from Palo Alto University, and was awarded a Gold Key by Columbia Scholastic Press Association. She is has been Chair and Vice Chair of the Creative Commons Board of Directors since 2009.