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Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Peggy Charren
 Peggy Charren is the founder of Action for Children's Television (ACT), a 10,000-member national child advocacy organization that encouraged responsible broadcasting practices beginning in 1968. Ms. Charren is also a visiting scholar at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, where she serves on the Technology Council. Her views on television and society have been solicited by virtually every major educational institution in this country and at symposia from Oxford to Tokyo.
Ms. Charren was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995, a Peabody Award in 1992 and an Emmy in 1988. She has been celebrated for her pioneer work on behalf of the world's children by the American Academy of Pediatrics, Big Sisters, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the National Conference of Christians and Jews. She received the Annenberg Public Policy Center Award from the University of Pennsylvania for Lifetime Contribution to Excellence in Children's Television and a "Women that Make a Difference" Award from the International Women's Forum, both in 1996.
Ms. Charren holds academic honors from Radcliffe College and Connecticut College and honorary degrees from eight colleges and universities. She is, or has been, a director and advisor to the Library of Congress, the Children's Museum, the 20th Century Fund, the Center for Psychological Studies, The American Repertory Theater, the Carnegie Commission, the National Science Foundation, the National Women's Political Caucus, the New England Foundation on the Arts, the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union, and National Video Resources.
Ms. Charren is author, or co-author, of The TV-Smart Book for Kids; Television, Children and the Constitutional Bicentennial; and Changing Channels: Living (Sensibly) with Television.
Before she founded ACT, Ms. Charren directed the Newton, Massachusetts Creative Arts Council, developing artistic programs for kids in schools. She once owned and operated Quality Book Fairs, another enterprise focused on children, and was a director of the WPIX-TV film department in New York City.
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Medal History
