Sherrie Westin is President and CEO of Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame
Street, and serves on its Board of Trustees. Westin leads the organization’s efforts to deliver
research-driven early learning to children in more than 190 countries through mass media and
community programs designed to meet the most pressing needs of children today.
Westin has held leadership positions in media, nonprofit, and public service. She served as
Assistant to the President for Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs for President George
H.W. Bush, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development and held senior positions at the ABC Television Network and U.S. News & World
Report.

She was named a “Leading Global Thinker” by Foreign Policy Magazine, one of Fast
Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business,” a CNBC Changemaker, and to Forbes’ “50
Over 50” list. She was also recognized with the Smithsonian’s “American Ingenuity Award,” a
Parents Next Gen Award, and the Thomas Jefferson Medal for Citizen Leadership by the
University of Virginia.

Westin is Board Chair of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, serves as a director of the U.S. Global
Leadership Coalition and Vital Voices Global Partnership, and is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations. She is the author of What I Learned from Mom with former Sesame
Workshop CEO Jeffrey D. Dunn.