Anne Kreamer

Anne Kreamer

Anne Kreamer has been fortunate to work in a lot of wonderful places.   In the late 1970s and early 80s she was part of the team that distributed and co-produced Sesame Street around the world. A few years later she helped launch SPY magazine, about which has been said, “It’s pretty safe to say that SPY was the most influential magazine of the 1980s.” In the 1990s when her kids were young she had the perfect job — Executive Vice President and Worldwide Creative Director for Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite, where in addition to launching the consumer products division, she created and launched  Nickelodeon magazine .

At the turn of the century, Kreamer switched careers becoming a columnist for the cutting-edge business magazine Fast Company. After that she created the monthly “American Treasures” column for Martha Stewart Living.  In 2007 she published her first book, Going Gray, What I Learned About Beauty, Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity And Everything Else That Matters, and wrote a Yahoo blog, “Going Gray, Getting Real.”   It’s Always Personal, a book exploring the new realities of emotion in the workplace was published April, 2011.

Kreamer graduated from Harvard College and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Kurt Andersen, the novelist and host of public radio’s Studio 360, and their two daughters, Kate and Lucy.