Sonia Manzano is best known for her performance as Maria on Sesame Street for 44 seasons, which won her two Emmy nominations and the National Academy of Arts and Science’s Lifetime Achievement Daytime Emmy. As a writer for the show, she took home 15 Emmys. Most recently, she created Alma’s Way, a PBS Kids program that has won two Imagen Awards for Best Youth Programing, a 2022 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Preschool Animated Program, and a 2023 NAACP nomination for an Image Award. In 2022, Manzano won the Beacon Award. She is the author of Coming Up Cuban, which follows four children during the Cuban Revolution.
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