Christian Clark

Self-portrait cartoon, from UNICEF for Beginners (1996).

Christian Clark (b. ca. 1961) is a writer and cartoonist who wrote for Sesame Street from 1987 to 1989. Clark won two Daytime Emmy Awards for his writing on the show.

Once a cartoonist for the New Internationalist and an Information Officer for UNICEF Somalia, Clark wrote and illustrated the 1996 book UNICEF for Beginners. Among his other projects include involvement in developing the animated character Meena, a South Asian girl who educates her region on issues of gender, discrimination and health, and he was the head of UNICEF's Meena Communication Initiative in Kathmandu, Nepal.

External links

• 1999 interview with The Communication Initiative Network
• UNICEF for Beginners (1996), written and illustrated by Clark.
• "Meena and Sara: Two Characters in Search of a Brighter Future for Girls." Animation World Magazine, May 1996.
• "Meena Comes To A Store Near You ... If You Live in South Asia." Animation World Magazine, October 1997.