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Birth Name:

Joan Reardon Ganz

Female

Birth Date:

Sat, Nov 30, 1929

Time of Birth:

12:45 AM

Place of Birth:

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Age:

94

Zodiac Sign:

Sagittarius

Astrology Data:

Sun

7°

Sag

38'

Moon

27°

Sco

45'

Asc

15°

Vir

31'

MC

14°

Gem

13'

About Joan Ganz Cooney

Joan Ganz Cooney (born Joan Ganz; November 30, 1929) is an American television producer. She is one of the founders of Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's Television Workshop or CTW), the organization famous for the creation of the children's television show Sesame Street, which was also co-created by her. Cooney grew up in Phoenix and earned a B.A. degree in education from the University of Arizona in 1951. After working for the State Department in Washington, D.C. and as a journalist in Phoenix, she worked as a publicist for television and production companies in New York City. In 1961, she became interested in working for educational television, and became a documentary producer for New York's first educational TV station WNET (Channel 13). Many of the programs she produced won local Emmys.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Joan Ganz Cooney on IMDb

• Text of Cooney's proposal "The Potential Uses of Television in Preschool Education"

• Appearances on C-SPAN

• Joan Ganz Cooney at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Joan Ganz Cooney: Sun 7 Sagittarius, Moon 27 Scorpio, Mercury 9 Sagittarius, Venus 21 Scorpio, Mars 8 Sagittarius, Jupiter 11 Gemini, Saturn 0 Capricorn, Uranus 7 Aries, Neptune 3 Virgo, Pluto 19 Cancer, Asc 15 Virgo, Mc 14 Gemini, Mercury Opposition Jupiter, Sun Conjunct Mars, Sun Trine Uranus, Moon Conjunct Venus, Sun Opposition Jupiter, Sun Square Neptune, Sun Conjunct Mercury, Mercury Conjunct Mars, Mercury Trine Uranus, Venus Sesquiquadrate Uranus, Venus Trine Pluto, Mars Opposition Jupiter, Mars Trine Uranus, Mars Square Neptune, Jupiter Square Ascendant, Jupiter Conjunct Midheaven, Saturn Trine Neptune, Neptune Semi Square Pluto, Pluto Sextile Ascendant, Ascendant Square Midheaven

Categories related to Joan Ganz Cooney: Living people, November 30 births, Grammy Award winners, American Jews, University of Arizona alumni, National Humanities Medal recipients, Arizona, American television producers, American people of German-Jewish descent, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients, North High School (Phoenix, Arizona) alumni, Businesspeople from Phoenix, Sesame Workshop people, People from Gramercy Park, 1929 births, The Peter G. Peterson Foundation