Valerie Mitchell Johnston
Lincoln Center writes:
November 17, 2015
Valerie Mitchell Johnston has been
appointed Deputy General Counsel, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
(LCPA), it was announced today by Lesley Rosenthal, Senior Vice
President, General Counsel and Secretary. Ms. Johnston was previously
Vice President of Legal and Business Affairs for HIT Entertainment, a
children's entertainment production company owned by Mattel. She comes
to Lincoln Center with over 20 years of industry and law firm experience
in development, production and distribution of content across various
media in domestic and global markets.
In her new position, Johnston is
responsible for assisting the General Counsel in managing all legal
aspects of the nonprofit organization’s programmatic, educational,
fundraising and administrative activities, particularly its strategic
initiatives in digital media.
In her six years at HIT Entertainment, Ms.
Johnston’s work included handling production and distribution across
the U.S., Latin America, and internationally. Prior to HIT, she worked
at Sesame Workshop as Vice President of Legal and Business Affairs,
where she oversaw business affairs of global television syndication,
home video, publishing, digital and themed entertainment businesses.
Previously she was associated with the law firms of Proskauer Rose LLP
and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP. Ms. Johnston earned
her JD from Harvard Law School. She graduated from University of
Illinois with a B.A. degree in English literature. She was a longtime
board member of the National Black Programming Consortium.
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