Esther Cohen

Esther Cohen is the executive director of Bread and Roses, the nonprofit cultural arm of Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union, the largest union in the United States, representing 1.8 million low-wage workers. Bread and Roses is the leading working people's cultural program in the country. The photography exhibition entitled unseenamerica has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fast Company, on ABC World News Tonight and NPR, and in many other media outlets. Cohen is also the author of the novel Book Doctor. She lives in New York City.