Lindy DeKoven

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rdf:langString Lindy DeKoven is a novelist, television executive, producer, and California state commissioner. She was Executive Vice President of NBC overseeing movies and miniseries and then served as an Executive Producer at Paramount/CBS where she developed the comedy, Listen Up! for CBS Television as well as, television pilots, miniseries, and made-for-TV movies. At NBC, DeKoven ordered to production: Merlin, Gulliver’s Travels, The Odyssey, The Temptations, Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, A Woman of Independent Means[1], The 60’s[2], The 70’s[3], Asteroid, Noah's Ark, The Beast, Crime & Punishment, Pandora's Clock, female-teen franchise featuring Beverly Hills, 90210 stars, such as Tori Spelling, Tiffani Amber Thiessen, Brian Austin Green, Michelle Williams, and Jennie Garth, which was among the first television programs to feature soundtracks by new artists. DeKoven is a gubernatorial appointee to the California Commission on the Status of Women which she chaired, the California State Parks and Recreation Commission, and the California State Film Commission. She served on the Board of the California Governor and First Lady's Conference on Women and is featured in Jennifer Siebel Newsom's documentary, "Miss Representation" DeKoven is the author of two novels, "Primetime Princess" (2013) and "The Secret Life of Wishful Thinking" (2015) She is also the Founder and Chair of "The Listen Up America Project" in collaboration with Senator Barbara Boxer's "PAC For a Change." www.barbaraboxer.com/listenup