Draft:Kristen Duncan Williams

Kristen Duncan Williams is a Writer, Creative Director, and multi-platform content creator based in Brooklyn, New York. She is the Founder of Leeway which writes/produces creative for kids.

Career
Kristen Duncan Williams is a children’s media script writer, STEM educational consultant, and creative director with 15+ years of experience in script writing and digital content creation.

Kristen is currently a freelance writer on Hey Fuzzy Yellow, a new animated preschool series created by Måns Swanberg and led by showrunner McPaul Smith. The series is a co-production by Curiosity Ink Media, Toon2Tango, Treehouse Republic, and Hotel Hungaria Animation.

In 2016, Kristen founded Leeway Collective. Leeway writes and produces content for kids. Kristen was hired to research and write 145 episodes of the hit DIY YouTube show for kids called Hack Along for client Goldieblox.

Kristen was the former Head Writer for On-Air promos for the Nick Jr. channel working on such properties as Dora, Bubble Guppies, Team Umizoomi, etc. Kristen continued as the Head Writer/Editorial Director at TeenNick for the programming block “The Splat”. She then joined the executive leadership team as Head Writer/Producer and Editorial Director at NickMom on Nickelodeon.

Most recently, Kristen served as in-house Creative Director at ZenBusiness working in partnership with JOAN creative agency on award-winning creative such as the Mother’s Day Campaign which spoke to the 3.5 million moms forced to leave the workforce in a pandemic to care for their kids.

In addition, a campaign encouraging entrepreneurs to start a dream business. Awards included: Clio/Bronze/Creative Effectiveness, One Show/Merit/Film, and Ad Age Small Agency Awards/Gold/Campaign of the Year B2B.

Personal Life
Kristen was born in Greenport on the North Fork of Long Island and attended Hollins University in Virginia. Her parents John D. Williams and Jane Williams were the former executives at Williams & Company and ran the National Scrabble Association for Milton Bradley.

She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her two kids.