Esther Wojcicki, known as “The Godmother of Silicon Valley,” is an internationally acclaimed journalist, award-winning educator and pioneer in the integration of technology into the classroom. She is the founder of the Palo Alto High School Media Arts Program, which has grown to be one of the nation’s most distinguished scholastic media programs, with 600-plus students, six teachers, nine publications and a new 25,000-sq. ft. Media Arts Center. Among her honors, Wojcicki was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at MediaX at Stanford, a 2009 MacArthur Foundation Research Fellow, a California Teacher of the Year and a recipient of the 2011 Charles O’Malley Award from Columbia Scholastic Press. Her most recent book is “How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
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