New York – Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, has named Dr. Charlotte Frances Cole to senior vice president, global education, announced Gary E. Knell, president and CEO. She will be responsible for company-wide global strategies and lead the development of all curriculum and research around Sesame Workshop’s international projects. As part of the Education, Research and Outreach team, Dr. Cole has been working with educators and production teams throughout the world on behalf of Sesame Workshop since 1994. She has most recently been engaged in projects in Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and West Bank/Gaza. Prior to joining the Workshop, Dr. Cole worked as a senior researcher at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston on a longitudinal study of families of children with acute and chronic illness funded by the National Institutes of Health. She has also served as a consultant to the Harvard Institute for International Development on several child-health projects in Thailand. Dr. Cole received her doctorate in Human Development and Psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. Her teaching experience includes serving as a course instructor at Boston College (Newton, Massachusetts), Lesley College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (Terre Haute, Indiana) in the United States. She has worked as a board member for several community-service organizations including the Council on Domestic Abuse in Terre Haute, Indiana, Oxford Academy in Westbrook, Connecticut and NetAid in New York. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Children and Media and served as the publication’s founding Review and Commentary Editor.