Children's Programming

Daniel Evans, III

Dan Evans has almost two decades of practical production and television network experience, ranging from popular television shows such as In Living Color and Beverly Hills 90210 to his recent children’s programming with Kids WB, Fox Kids, Disney XD and Nickelodeon. He currently acts as a freelance programming executive for Nick and Disney Cable Channels while also working on his own original writing, including a short story for Oni Press Comics.

David Kleeman

Strategist, analyst, author and speaker — David Kleeman leads the children’s media industry in developing sustainable, kid-friendly solutions to long-standing issues. Kleeman is president of the American Center for Children and Media, an executive roundtable that promotes exchange of ideas, expertise and information as a means for building quality, and looks worldwide for best practices. He is advisory board chair to the international children's TV festival (Prix Jeunesse), led American advisors to the World Summits on children’s media and has presented on six continents. Kleeman advises companies and organizations ranging from PBS Kids, Baby Einstein and HarperCollins, to the Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media, UNICEF and the Fred Rogers Center. He serves on the Television Academy Foundation’s Education Committee. Kleeman authored a major study on public broadcasting’s roles for children in the digital era, book chapters and numerous articles; he also blogs for the Huffington Post. A Harvard graduate, Kleeman lives in Chicago with his wife, and has two grown daughters.