cover story
port system and make it grow and songs from the hit show all sung by
believe that everything happens for a Caitlyn Sanchez. Sanchez, as Dora the
reason.” Explorer, will continue to teach its
As Kathleen Herles takes a break audience to be bilingual and to
from Dora the Explorer, Cuban-Amer- embrace the Hispanic culture as outgo-
ican, Caitlyn Sanchez will continue the ing, gifted and talented. While the
legacy of Dora. The fifth season of amazing and cheerful Kathleen Herles
Dora the Explorer kicked off with a may be saying “Vamonos” to a differ-
Dora the Explorer Party Favorites CD ent Mapa, she will still be carrying a
that was released September 9, 2008. backpack, but to a different location
The CD contains 16 tracks including until she meets up with her amigos
some special party remixes of Dora’s again. HNM
Meet Brown Johnson
Caitlyn Sanchez
B
rown Johnson is Johnson’s vision, leader-
President, Animation, ship and brand strategy have
a role-model and I want to start a group Nickelodeon and MTVN made Nick Jr. the number-
at school to help kids. I want to keep a Kids and Family Group. one brand for preschoolers,
lot of things going for kids.” Johnson spearheads
imes
spawning multiple business-
ork T
HNM: What projects do you have development and produc- es for Nickelodeon including
coming up? What’s next? tion for all animated pro- an extensive consumer
Kathleen Herles: “I want to do a gramming across Nick- products line, Nick Jr. Maga-
lot with families through media and my elodeon, the largest
ashington/The New Y
zine,
nickjr.com and suc-
community. I always remember to go provider of television ani- cessful live shows for hit
back to my roots and help out.” mation in the US, while properties Blue’s Clues,
Photo by Ruby W
HNM: As Caitlyn Sanchez contin- continuing to oversee Brown Johnson President, Animation, Dora the Explorer, Go,
ues your legacy as Dora, what advice development and produc-
Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group
Diego, Go!, and The Back-
would you give her? tion for all preschool pro- yardigans.
Kathleen Herles: “Keep the spirit gramming. Johnson joined Nick-
of Dora, she is family oriented and she Johnson supervises creative executive elodeon in 1988 as Executive in Charge of
loves her culture. Keep the positive- teams on both the East and West Coasts, Production and in 1989 was promoted to
ness that Dora had.” managing the creative direction and coordi- Vice President, Production for Nick-
HNM: What advice would you give nation efforts between series production, elodeon/Nick at Nite, where she oversaw all
kids seeking a career such as yours and on-air promotions, marketing and con- Nickelodeon production, production man-
being Latina? sumer products. Additionally, Johnson agement, talent and Nickelodeon Studios’
Kathleen Herles: “Being bilingual oversees global animation development for production staff in Florida.
you have a lot of opportunities if you Nickelodeon networks. In 1993, she became Vice President/
keep trying, keep doing what you are During her 20-year tenure at Nick- Executive Producer of Nick Jr. Production
doing and you’ll eventually get there. It elodeon, Johnson has overseen and nur- and Development. Nickelodeon invested
is very important to be bilingual.” tured numerous groundbreaking proper- more than 30 million dollars in original pre-
HNM: What do you think is the ties, including the preschool hits Blue’s school television, and Johnson was respon-
most valuable contribution that a Clues, Dora the Explorer, The Backyardi- sible for launching daily original series in
young Latina woman can make to her gans, Go, Diego, Go!, Yo Gabba Gabba! and the block including Gullah Gullah Island,
community, family and to herself? most recently, Ni Hao, Kai-lan. Johnson Blue’s Clues, Little Bill and Dora the Explor-
Kathleen Herles: “Support the spearheads all preschool content across er. She was promoted to Executive Vice
other Latinos that are trying to do the Nickelodeon networks, including Nick Jr., President, Nick Jr., in 2001 and has since
same thing you are doing. It is about us Nickelodeon’s programming block dedicat- led the development and production of Nick
Latinos coming together and support- ed to preschoolers and NOGGIN, Nick- Jr.’s favorite programs.
ing each other and seeing how far we elodeon’s commercial-free digital educa-
have gone is amazing and I think we tional network for preschoolers. -Source: Nickelodeon
should keep on being each other’s sup-
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