About Us
Isaac Kestenbaum
Isaac Kestenbaum has worked as a lobsterman, a farmer, a newspaper reporter and a robotics instructor. He's now a multimedia producer living in Brooklyn.
Josie Holtzman
Josie Holtzman is an audio producer and sound artist. Her work has been featured on NPR, Planet Money, Studio 360, and more. She is a former producer for the NPR/WBGO show Jazz Night in America.
Winters Past is funded by Invoking the Pause, an environmental small grants program designed to advance public awareness and engagement about climate change issues.
Press / Praise
"Audio Project 'Winters Past' Combines Soundwalks and Narratives to Consider the Changing Seasons" - SciArt in America
"Winters Past: Stories of a Changing Alaska" - 350.org
"Audio Portraits of Alaskan Winters" - Climate Access
"Team Documents Elders' Memories of Colder Winters" - KYUK
"A Foot of Ice on the Hudson? It's a Good Time to Go Ice Yachting" - WNYC
"Blast from the past: Audio project reminds us that times, and temps, are changing" - Grist
"Snowbirds" - The Recollective
"Winters Past" - Vassar alumnae news
Staff Pick, Third Coast International Radio Festival
Favorite Podcasts, Radio Diaries