Ester Shapiro is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and Research Associate at the Mauricio Gaston Institute for Latino Public Policy and Community Development. Her research and organizational consultations in child, maternal, and family health include projects on culturally competent, family-based maternal substance abuse treatment; domestic violence treatment and prevention; and smoking and substance abuse prevention. At the Gaston Institute, she has led multiple projects designed to support the work of Latino community-based organizations and the delivery of culturally competent direct services.

Ester is the author of Grief as a Family Process: A Developmental Approach to Clinical Practice (Guilford, 1994; 2nd edition in preparation); and co-author and Coordinating Editor of Nuestros Cuerpos Nuestras Vidas (Seven Stories Press, NY 2000 and Debate, Spain 2000), the Spanish language cultural adaptation of Our Bodies, Ourselves for use in Latin America and by U.S. Latinas.