Faculty

Theresa Fitzgerald is a mission-driven creative leader, designer, and educator living in Brooklyn. She has extensive experience as a multidisciplinary design executive for global media and entertainment brands including Sesame Workshop, Sesame Street, Nickelodeon, Peanuts Worldwide, United Media, National Geographic, and Scholastic. Through her design expertise, she drives brand expansion and grows impact through  entertaining, educating and engaging audiences around the world.   At Sesame Workshop, the educational nonprofit organization, she led the design vision for the mission-driven brand, Sesame Street. Theresa provided creative strategy for 360 brand expression including philanthropic development, consumer products, publishing, digital products, motion and video, marketing campaigns, social channels, themed entertainment and experiential events. Theresa builds and leads diverse high-performing teams to produce award-winning brand systems to develop new brands and revitalize classic properties.

Rochester Institute of Technology BFA