Louise Palanker is a co-founder of

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, host of the teen social network Our Place, and director of the documentary ''Family Band: The Cowsills Story''. Palanker is the author of the semi-auto-biographical, coming of age story, ''Journals: Middle School Love and War''. She developed this title into an

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app called Our Place within which she fields questions from teens about growing up and allows kids to connect safely with one another. Our Place also includes a weekly video podcast called ''Our Place Out Loud''. Palanker has produced and directed two documentary films: ''Family Band:

The Cowsills The Cowsills are an American singing group from Newport, Rhode Island, six siblings noted for performing professionally and singing harmonies at an early age, later with their mother. The band was formed in early 1965 by brothers Bill, Bob, and ...

Story'' (airing on

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in 2013–2014) and ''We Played Marbles: Remembering a Stolen Childhood'' (2007), about the lives of

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.Google Books: ''Journals - Revised: Middle School Love & War''; About the author
(Kdp Print Us, 2011, )- Retrieved 2019-02-02 In 1999, she began a stand-up comedy program, Kid's Comedy Club, at two Los Angeles Boys and Girls Clubs and the Santa Barbara Jewish Federation, where kids learn to write and perform their own stand-up comedy. In March 2005, Palanker made headlines while testifying in the

trial of Michael Jackson ''People v. Jackson'' (full title: ''1133603: The People of the State of California v. Michael Joe Jackson'') was a 2005 criminal trial held in Santa Barbara County Superior Court in Santa Maria, California. The American singer-songwriter Mic ...

as a witness for the prosecution. The prosecution called Palanker to testify about a call she received from the accuser's mother, and to rebut defense suggestions that the family tried to dupe celebrities, including Palanker,

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and

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, into giving them money. Despite Palanker's testimony, pop superstar Jackson was found not guilty on all charges. She lives in

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and

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, with her husband.

References

External links

Louise Palanker's website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Palanker, Louise American comedy writers American television producers American women television producers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women