Fireside Chat with Theresa Fitzgerald, VP Creative, Sesame Workshop

AIGA Executive Director Bennie F. Johnson talks with today's leaders in design, business, and technology, focused around the topics of leadership growth, the future of work, and creating a culture of design. Join us in welcoming Theresa Fitzgerald, Vice President of Creative at Sesame Workshop. Theresa Fitzgerald is vice president creative at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street. She leads the in-house Brand Creative Services team dedicated to the mission of helping kids grow stronger, smarter and kinder. Fitzgerald has spent more than 25 years developing creative to entertain, educate and engage young minds. Prior to Sesame, she oversaw design and branding vision at Nickelodeon, Snoopy & Peanuts, Scholastic and National Geographic. She is an adjunct professor at New York University/Steinhart teaching design; an educational team member at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum supporting Design in the Classroom, and has been a guest speaker at New York University, School of Visual Arts, AIGA New York City, Parsons The New School, Cooper Hewitt Family Day, Rochester Institute of Technology and Brand New Conference. Fitzgerald is committed to problem solving, mind-evolving and boiling it down to the essence of the big idea with humor and delight. Watch the captioned video version of this Fireside Chat here: https://www.aiga.org/inspiration/talks/theresa-fitzgerald-fireside-chat-with-theresa-fitzgerald