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Wojcicki is a journalism and English teacher at Palo Alto High School, where she leads one of the largest high school journalism programs in the nation. She leads a variety of award-winning journalism projects, including a newspaper, a magazine, a website, a television program, and a sports publication. Over the past 20 years, these projects have won Gold and Silver Crowns from Columbia Scholastic Press Association, the PaceMaker Award and Hall of Fame Award from National Scholastic Press, and best in nation from Time Magazine in 2003. In February 2009, she was awarded the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Key Award in a special ceremony at Columbia University for "outstanding devotion to the cause of the school press … and service above and beyond the call of delegated duty." She is the president of the Friends of the Lurdes Mutola Foundation to support girls' education in Mozambique and is a consultant for the Silicon Valley Education Foundation and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

"2001 * Creative Commons founded. 2002 * Version 1.0 licenses released. 2003 * Approximately 1 million licenses in use. 2004 * Estimated 4.7 million licensed works by the end of the year. * Version 2.0 released. * Licenses ported to 12 international jurisdictions. 2005 * Estimated 20 million works. * Version 2.5 released. * Licenses ported to a further 13 jurisdictions. * Science Commons launches. 2006 * Estimated 50 million licensed works. * Licenses ported to a further 9 jurisdictions. 2007 * Estimated 90 million licensed works. * Version 3.0 released. * 5th birthday of CC licenses. Event featured performance by Gilberto Gil. * Licenses ported to a further 8 jurisdictions. * ccLearn launches. 2008 * Estimated 130 million CC licensed works. * Licenses ported to a further 8 jurisdictions. * Lawrence Lessig steps down as CEO, replaced by Joi Ito. * New Nine Inch Nails album released under CC. * CC launches fundraising campaign with support from Jesse Dylan and Jonathan Coulton. 2009 * CC0 launched. * Esther Wojcicki becomes board chair."