Sesame Workshop
American nonprofit organizationwww.sesameworkshop.org
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Oct 26, 2026
Patrick WoodwardHOST
She loved Henson's Muppets.
Patrick WoodwardHOST
Cooney worked for Children's Television Workshop, a company that educated children through creative television programs.
Patrick WoodwardHOST
At that time, the company was developing a new children's television show called Sesame Street.
Patrick WoodwardHOST
Children's Television Workshop wanted the show to teach as well as to make children laugh.
Patrick WoodwardHOST
Cooney thought Henson could help them achieve this.
Alice IrrizaryHOST
Cooney contacted Henson and he joined their team.
Tiffany IshiiHOST
Businesses build it into their yearly giving and started fundraisers around it.
Tiffany IshiiHOST
And we've seen places like Sesame Workshop, Happy Socks, Bonobos, Microsoft, and more join in.
Tiffany IshiiHOST
And it was even mentioned on Jeopardy.
Tiffany IshiiHOST
It's a starting place.
JohnHOST
have felt about it but
JayHOST
yeah anyway um so this version of it was produced for the episcopal radio tv foundation um it was produced by the children's television workshop who are the people behind sesame street um and they had begun work on it with a different studio but it fell through so they approached bill melinda's productions with only nine months left to make this this I mean, it's it's a feature length.
JayHOST
It was aired over two days, but it's feature length.
JayHOST
Yeah.
Valiant FreemanGUEST
Too kind, too kind.
Diana MarszalekHOST
So, Valiant, you have built an impressive career right now that includes Sesame Workshop, Google, Weber Shanwick, but you also have a very strong commitment to others and something that, rigid in your own experiences, and something that made a lot in your application and your selection as a young changemaker.
Diana MarszalekHOST
So, welcome.
Valiant FreemanGUEST
Yeah, thank you.
Valiant FreemanGUEST
Too kind.
Diana MarszalekHOST
So, um, Valiant, you've, you have built an impressive career right now that includes Sesame Workshop, Google, Weber Shandwick.
Diana MarszalekHOST
Um, but you also have a very strong commitment to others, and something that, uh, rooted in your own experiences, and something that made a lot in your, uh, in your application and your, your, uh, selection as a Young Changemaker.
Diana MarszalekHOST
So, welcome.
Valiant FreemanGUEST
Too kind.
Diana MarszalekHOST
[laughs] So, um, Valiant, you've, you have built an impressive career right now that includes Sesame Workshop, Google, Weber Shandwick.
Diana MarszalekHOST
Um, but you also have a very strong commitment to others, and something that, uh, rooted in your own experiences and something that made a lot in your, uh, in your application and your, your, uh, selection as a Young Changemaker.
Diana MarszalekHOST
So, welcome.
JoshHOST
But after that, he began pursuing careers in engineering and computer science, but neither one of those worked out for him, so he entered the film industry in the 1960s and became well known for, you're not gonna believe this, but directing children's commercials.
JoshHOST
He claimed that in 1969 he created live-action clips for the Children's Television Workshop, which is the organization behind the iconic show Sesame Street, although the company says it has no record of him.
JoshHOST
So, you know, again, how much of this-
IanHOST
Right
Savannah JordanHOST
Samantha Malton is the chief marketing and brand officer of ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Savannah JordanHOST
And before joining St. Jude, Samantha actually built her career across entertainment, media, and mission-driven brands, holding leadership roles at Nickelodeon and Viacom, the History Channel, and most recently, Sesame Workshop, where she served as the executive vice president and chief marketing and brand officer.
Savannah JordanHOST
And today, she oversees marketing, brand, and communications for St. Jude, which is a brand, obviously, that has earned such an extraordinary level of recognition and trust.
Savannah JordanHOST
while continuing to evolve how it reaches and inspires the next generation of supporters.
Samantha MaltonGUEST
Early on, that was with media and entertainment brands like Nickelodeon and MTV, Comedy Central.
Samantha MaltonGUEST
And then the things that energized me most were what we called at the time pro-social efforts or corporate social responsibility, right, today.
Samantha MaltonGUEST
How could I make an impact in the broader community and in society? And that's really what led me after a few detours to Sesame Workshop.
Samantha MaltonGUEST
And Sesame was really a part of the circle of care for children and families.
Charlie RoseHOST
She directed and produced Russia for Sale, The Rough Road to Capitalism.
Charlie RoseHOST
Then the Children's Television Workshop took notice and asked her to bring Sesame Street, can you believe it, to post-Soviet Russia at the end of the Cold War.
Charlie RoseHOST
She became executive producer of Yulitsa Seyzan.
Charlie RoseHOST
the Russian version of Sesame Street from 1993 to 1997, and faced all the questions of taking a popular American program for children and translate it to a Russian program for Russian children.
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Natasha Lance RogoffGUEST
yes, yes.
Natasha Lance RogoffGUEST
And at the same time, Sesame Street offered me a job to create a Russian original version of the children's show in Moscow.
Charlie RoseHOST
This is Children's Television Workshop.
Charlie RoseHOST
Yes.
Debra RodriguezHOST
U.S. oil prices up 3%.
Debra RodriguezHOST
Nature and the Sesame Workshop have teamed up to take some Muppets on safari.
Debra RodriguezHOST
Elmo and his friend
Sherri PrestonHOST
Abby Cadabby are headed to Kenya, where they will visit an orphaned elephant.
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