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Joan Ganz Cooney [1929-0] American

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Producer, Television producer

Joan Ganz Cooney is an American television producer. She is one of the founders of the Sesame Workshop, the organization famous for the creation of the children's television show Sesame Street, which was also co-created by her.

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My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for a while, then went to New York and worked in PR at RCA and NBC, and at 'The United States Steel Hour,' a drama series.	Education, Teacher	101
I did not even go to kindergarten; I just started first grade when I was five and started reading right away. I don't know how it all worked, but I had a lot of adults and older siblings around me. So, I guess I was probably introduced to what one would be introduced to at that time in kindergarten.		102
The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!		103
Big Bird was the biggest star, I mean, children's favorite for a number of years. I have a 22-year-old granddaughter whose first words were 'Big Bird.'		104
I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on Head Start, on poverty. But I was struck by the children, and the damage that poverty was doing to them. I didn't think filming them was helping much, so I wondered how we could use TV for them, to teach them.		105
I was brought up Catholic, and even as a little girl I was affected by the idea of giving back - doing something for the needy, something of significance.		106
I thought it was quintessentially American - very hip, very late-'60s. I was absolutely stunned when a German production company asked me if I could do a 'Sesame Street' in Germany. It was absolutely the happiest surprise.		107
In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use local actors. And it's not always a street. Sometimes it's 'Sesame Plaza,' or 'Sesame Tree.'		108

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