Brief Bio or Introduction
Esther D. Kustanowitz is an award-winning writer and podcast host, as well as an editor, consultant and speaker. She wrote about TV for J.: The Jewish News of Northern California, and was a contributing writer at eJewishPhilanthropy.com. She co-hosts The Bagel Report, an award-winning podcast about Jewish identity and popular culture, and speaks about #TVGoneJewy, a term she invented to describe the increase of Jewish content on TV. She is also faculty adviser to The Boiling Point, the student publication of Shalhevet High School. Esther was also founding editor at GrokNation.com; contributed to the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles; wrote for ModernLoss.com, LAist, Haaretz, JTA and the Forward, among others; and has worked with dozens of Jewish organizations. She is also working on a project about life after loss called Nothing Helps (But This Might Help).
