Sr. Director of Development at PBS KIDS | USA

Sarah Wallendjack is the Sr. Director of Content Development at PBS KIDS. She is an Emmy award-winning Executive Producer with a 20+ year career developing and creating impactful children’s content.

Prior to joining the PBS KIDS team, Sarah served as the VP, Development and Production at 9 Story Media Group where she led the development of original properties and oversaw a slate of ambitious creator-driven development and production projects with an aim to better children’s lives through media.

While at Out of the Blue Enterprises (for over a decade), Sarah Executive Produced SUPER WHY!, PBS’s long-running hit literacy series. She also developed and Executive Produced Netflix’s Charlie’s Colorforms City, and served as the Supervising Producer on five seasons of Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, helping to create over 100 episodes, which earned 5 Emmy nominations and won the award for Outstanding Children’s Animated Preschool Series in 2019. Prior to her role at Out of the Blue, Sarah worked on Nickelodeon's Wonder Pets!, Disney's Go Baby!, Disney's Johnny and the Sprites and PBS's Kids Block with Miss Lori and Hooper**.

A leader in the industry, Sarah was the President of the Children’s Media Association and is passionate about fostering the next generation of children’s media makers.

In her free time, Sarah enjoys scuba diving, synchronized swimming, sewing a handmade wardrobe, the Muppets, and making things.