Elizabeth “Lizzie” Weinreb Fishman has served as Vice President for Strategic Communications at Sesame Workshop since 2015. Sesame Workshop is the nonprofit media and educational organization behind Sesame Street, the pioneering television show that has been reaching and teaching children since 1969. Sesame Workshop celebrated its 50th anniversary in a wide-ranging campaign throughout 2019.

Fishman oversees all press strategy and media relations for Sesame Workshop’s businesses, philanthropic projects and executive team, as well as Sesame Street and other shows. Her team works closely with Sesame’s marketing and social teams to elevate all Sesame properties and initiatives including the iconic television show, as well as Sesame Workshop’s social impact work around the world.

Previously, Fishman served as Associate Dean for Communications at Columbia Journalism School. For eight years, she managed the Journalism School’s strategic communications, media relations, marketing and special events. She began at the school in 2003, hired by incoming Dean Nicholas Lemann as Director of Special Projects. From 2005-07 she served as Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, before taking on her role running communications.

Before joining Columbia Journalism School, Fishman worked in television news. From 1997 to 2003, she was an associate producer at CBS News 60 Minutes. She produced more than forty stories including segments about U.S.-Saudi relations, India’s prestigious IIT schools, the Pentagon school system, and profiles of J.K. Rowling, Jack Welch and George Lucas. She began at CBS News in 1993, working on the broadcast Eye to Eye with Connie Chung, and then worked as associate producer for the A&E Biography series based at CBS News.

Fishman received her B.A. in English from Harvard College in 1991, and an M.A. in Higher Education from Teacher’s College in 2007. She was a 2012 Fellow in the Punch Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program.