Victoria Riskin is an award-winning writer and producer. She served as President of the Writers Guild of America West, representing screen and television writers through the organization that her father helped create three-quarters of a century earlier. Riskin also served twelve years on the International Board of Human Rights Watch and chaired its Hellman-Hammett Committee that distributed funds to persecuted writers around the world.
Riskin received a BA in Humanities from USC, a Master’s Degree in Psychology from Antioch University, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Southern California. Before becoming a screenwriter and producer she maintained a practice in Psychology for fifteen years. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of National Public Radio station KCRW in Santa Monica. Riskin resides in Martha’s Vineyard with her husband of forty years, writer-producer David W. Rintels.
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