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Donna Erickson is the executive producer and host of the award-winning family lifestyle series Donna’s Day on PBS and abroad. For more than 20 years, Donna has been nationally recognized for inspiring adults to connect with kids through her budget-minded recipes and activities, designed to develop lasting memories, strengthen family relationships and make the time spent with kids count.
Since 1990, Donna has written a weekly syndicated column distributed by King Features Syndicate. She is author of 9 books, including Prime Time Together with Kids, which sold 500,000 copies, and her most recent, Donna Erickson’s Fabulous Funstuff for Families. She plays the live-action role of “Captain Wentworth” on the award-winning PBS Kids series Jay Jay the Jetplane and has been a contributing editor for Parents magazine.
Donna has appeared frequently on The TODAY Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, FOX News, HGTV and Discovery Channel. Her awards include Gold Parents’ Choice Awards for her books and television series Donna’s Day. The show was also chosen by the Associated Press as one of the “Top Ten Television Shows” in the U S. in 1999.
She is a speaker at national conferences on the topics of “Play” and “Creative Living,” and has been an active media spokesperson for companies such as Target, Hershey’s, Kleenex Brand, Pillsbury, Kellogg’s and, currently, SC Johnson.
Donna holds a B.A. from North Park University in Chicago where she is currently on the Board of Trustees and where she received the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2002. She attained an M.A. degree from the U of MN in second languages and cultures education. She has taught at the elementary, secondary and college levels in the US, Sweden, Congo and Zambia. She is the mother of three kids and lives in Minneapolis.
