Alice Cahn

A Managing Director of the Foundation, Alice Cahn heads Markle’s Interactive Media for Children program, a multi-faceted initiative of research, investments, and public education that aims to create and support quality interactive media for young age groups.

Ms. Cahn came to Markle from Children's Television Workshop (CTW), where she served as President of the Television, Film, and Video Group. In that capacity, she was responsible for all of CTW's domestic and international creative development and television production, as well as home video and audio production and the development and production of film projects for the nonprofit organization.

Prior to that, Cahn was director of Children's Programming at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), where her responsibilities included strategic planning, the direction of all PBS children's projects, and the development of series, including Teletubbies, Wishbone, Kratts' Creatures, Arthur, and Where in Time is Carmen San Diego.

Before moving to PBS, Ms. Cahn designed national outreach programs that linked television, businesses, and education at the Los-Angeles-based Education First!, and served as program director for Children's Instructional Television at KQED, Northern California Public Broadcasting.

Cahn did her masters work in Educational Technology at San Francisco State University and holds a B.S. in Education from New York University and RFS from the Town and Country School.