A registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Writers Read is a popular literary forum promoting established and emerging writers through curated live and digital performances celebrating the spoken word. Presentation partners include Carnegie Hall, The National Arts Club, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, City Winery, Vassar College, Sarah Lawrence College, The New Rochelle Council on the Arts and many others. www.WritersRead.org

With partner Richard Kollath, for more than twenty years Ed has created and managed a wide variety of successful projects for the publishing, broadcasting, and public relations industry. "What most of these assignments have in common is an opportunity to work with people we haven't worked with before, on something we haven't done before, with many elements outside our control. So with a budget, a deadline, and a set of things that will go wrong, our task is to keep moving things forward, finding creative, economical solutions, and delivering a final product that exceeds our client's expectations."Clients include Aramark, Microsoft, NBC/Universal, Hearst Magazines, Eddie Bauer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, National Geographic, Delaware North Corporation, Edelman Public Relations, QVC, Wal-Mart, Spiegel, ABC Carpet & Home and many others.☎ 845 895-2553

As long time contributors to Country Living, Ed and his partner, Richard Kollath, conceived, developed, and produced dozens of editorial features on interior and garden design, holiday decor, kitchen remodels, whole house renovations, and more. Working with Stella Show Management, they designed they look and feel of The Country Living Fair, a three-day lifestyle and shopping event which launched in Chicago and draws upwards of 20,000 visitors to recurring annual events in Columbus, OH, Atlanta, GA, Rhinebeck, NY, and Nashville, TN.

Board member for the 10-acre National Historic Landmark District where visitors experience over 300 years of history across seven historic stone-house museums, a reconstructed 1717 French Church, the Huguenot community’s original burying ground, and a replica Esopus Munsee wigwam. Period rooms and exhibits tell the stories of a French Huguenot settlement as it evolved over time, and also reveal the history of the area’s Native and enslaved African peoples and Dutch settlers. It was originally founded in 1894 by the descendants of the first settlers as the Huguenot Patriotic, Historical, and Monumental Society to preserve what remained of their French and Dutch heritage. Since then, Historic Huguenot Street has grown into an innovative museum, chartered as an educational corporation by the University of the State of New York, that is dedicated to protecting our historic buildings, conserving an important collection of artifacts and manuscripts, and promoting the stories of the Huguenot Street families, from the sixteenth century to today.Historic Huguenot Street envisions a nationally recognized historic site that will inspire guests to think in new ways about American history while also carrying forward the conversation about the relationship between past and present.

In the year he spent at The C.I.A., Ed collaborated on the design of two studio/production kitchens, and wrote and produced a variety of external marketing videos. He also created educational and instructional programming for use by both the Institute's students and the hospitality industry. As with many other C.I.A. videos, Ed's three part series on Techniques of Healthy Cooking (a companion series to the Van Nostrand Reinhold textbook) was marketed to the foodservice and hospitality industries (Hilton, Amtrak, Marriott, Disney, etc.)

Ed was the first college intern to work at this start-up, independent broadcast station with studios and offices in Kingston and Poughkeepsie, New York. Hired immediately following graduation, Ed began in an a technical position, working in master control from midnight to 8AM. In six months he was promoted to Production Coordinator, responsible for maintaining schedules for personnel, vehicles, equipment, and editing facilities, then to Writer/Producer, a role in which he created dozens of local television commercials and promotions. He also served as the station's intern coordinator, interviewing, placing, scheduling, and evaluating college interns from across the U.S. For three years, Ed originated, wrote, and produced a weekly half-hour magazine format show, and collaborated with colleagues in the News Department on a series of week-long special reports and community forums on child care ("Who's Watching the Kids?"), driving under the influence ("Dead Drunk'), and the state of the region's hospitals ("Condition: Critical"). During his seven years on staff, Ed won several state and national broadcasting awards for his work.