New Sesame pal Ameera represents the joyful lives of children with disabilities

Sesame Street officially has a new friend on the block, and she's got a big role to take on: representing the 240 million children with disabilities around the world and bringing visibility to globally displaced children.

Ameera, 8, is a neon-green, pony-tailed muppet monster designed as part of Sesame Workshop's initiative to...