Sherrie Westin

Sherrie Sandy Westin (Col ’80 CM) was named president of Sesame Workshop, the non-profit educational organization behind Sesame Street. She serves as Sesame Workshop’s chief mission ambassador, raising awareness, developing strategic partnerships, and cultivating philanthropic support to further the Workshop’s mission to help children everywhere grow smarter, stronger and kinder. Westin spearheaded a partnership to create the largest early childhood intervention in the history of humanitarian response, bringing early education to refugee children in the Syrian response region. Working with the International Rescue Committee, she led Sesame Workshop’s efforts to win a historic $100 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation to fund this work. With an additional $100 million grant from the LEGO Foundation, this initiative has expanded to Bangladesh.