Minnie Chen grew up in South Pasadena, California as the only child of a charismatic TV producer/community advocate father and a pragmatic banker mother. Always a bit of a rebel with a cause, she took her degrees in Political Science, Social Ecology and Public Policy to help launch a highly-lauded public agency start-up getting better healthcare access to indigent populations. She later transitioned into television development working on shows such as Malcolm In The Middle, The Bernie Mac Show and The Shield. She learned physical production guerilla-style on reality TV shows such as America’s Next Top Model and The White Rapper Show. She later joined Universal Cable Productions to coordinate an ongoing slate of six current shows and 22 projects in development including USA Network’s Monk, Psych, Royal Pains, Covert Affairs, Eureka and Syfy Network’s Battlestar Galactica. Chen currently resides in Venice, California and when she’s not producing or consulting on various projects, she’s writing the next great American screenplay and perhaps a television pilot or two.