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Valerie Walsh Valdes (born April 10, 1966) is an executive producer at Nickelodeon. She is best known for co-creating and executive producing Dora the Explorer, as well as spin-offs Go, Diego, Go! and Dora and Friends: Into the City! among others. She also occasionally served as voice director during the fourth season of Dora the Explorer.

She has won a Peabody Award for Outstanding Children's Programming, in addition to multiple NAACP Image Awards, Imagen Awards, and Parents Choice Award, Silver and Bronze. As a executive producer, she has produced more than 300 half hours of animated television, seen in over 150 countries and translated into 30 languages. Her work has been highly approved for synthesizing interactivity with traditional narrative storytelling to create good empowering adventures.

With creating four original shows for Nickelodeon: Dora the Explorer, Go, Diego, Go!, Dora and Friends: Into the City!, and more recently Santiago of the Seas, she is one of the creators who knows what it feels like to have a creative vision explode into a worldwide phenomena.

Her husband Leslie Valdes occasionally serves as staff writer and voice actor for Dora the Explorer, in addition to having co-wrote the adaptation of the live Dora the Explorer musical, The City of Lost Toys.

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  • She wrote the most episodes in the entire franchise, with a total of 52 episodes expanding all three series.
  • In Seasons 1-3, she was recognized as a producer. During most of Season 4, she held the role of co-executive producer and also occasionally acted as a voice director. Starting with Dora's Dance to the Rescue, she took on the role of executive producer.
  • Outside of the Dora the Explorer franchise, Valerie is the co-creator of Nick Jr.'s recent series Santiago of the Seas (along with Leslie Valdes and Niki Lopez). She was also an executive producer during its first season.
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