Ethan Ward is an award-winning journalist, public speaker, and entrepreneur whose mission is to inspire people to see the beauty in themselves, in others, and the world. Ethan isn’t afraid to have thought provoking and honest conversations that celebrate diverse, unapologetic and bold voices on a range of social issues. He is no stranger to the audio space having reported for LAist 89.3 (formerly KPCC) and his storytelling can also be found on platforms such as USA Today, Marketplace, and Capital & Main, among others. Ethan is grateful for storytelling opportunities that center people’s humanity and create impact. His No Way To Live series that follows the journey of one woman’s housing insecurity, won a 2022 SABEW Best In Business Award in the personal finance category and was selected as an Editor’s Pick for the first Top 5 list of 2023 in Longreads. His reporting on the number of unhoused people who died in 2020 was recognized with a 2021 SoCal Journalism award. His story on how unhoused people use buckets to defecate appeared on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight.”

 

Ethan holds a Master of Public Diplomacy and a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Southern California. He hails from Wash, DC and Prince George’s County, MD. Ethan is based in Los Angeles where he continues to write his forthcoming memoir about the year he lived in his car.  

 

 ABOUT HEATDRAWN LLC

HEATDRAWN is an American media production company founded in 2020 by award-winning journalist Ethan Ward. HEATDRAWN is dedicated to producing innovative digital, television/film, and audio programming on a range of social issues that inform and inspire audiences, while celebrating diverse, unapologetic, and bold voices and ideas. Change begins with the stories we tell. Bear witness.