Tanya Selvaratnam

Born in Sri Lanka and raised in Long Beach, CA, Tanya Selvaratnam is a writer and an Emmy-nominated and Webby-winning filmmaker based in New York City and Portland, Oregon. She is the author of Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence and The Big Lie: Motherhood, Feminism, and the Reality of the Biological Clock. Her essays have been published in the New York Times, Vogue, CNN, NBC News, SheKnows, McSweeney’s, Cosmo, ELLE, and Glamour among others. She is the Senior Director, Gender Justice Narratives at the Pop Culture Collaborative. She has worked with the Ms. Foundation for Women, NGO Forum on Women, Third Wave Fund, The DO School, and World Health Organization. As a producer, Tanya has collaborated with Glamour Women of the Year, Planned Parenthood, Aubin Pictures, Joy To The Polls, The Meteor, Story Syndicate, and the Vision & Justice Project (Harvard University). With Laurie Anderson and Laura Michalchyshyn, she is a cofounder of The Federation; and she has been an advisor to For Freedoms. She has produced films by Gabri Christa, Lisa Cortés, Liz Garbus, Catherine Gund, Tiffany Shlain, Mickalene Thomas, Lucy Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, and Jed Weintrob, among others. Her projects have played on HBO, IFC, PBS, Starz, and the Sundance Channel; and have premiered at Sundance, Berlin, Tribeca, and SXSW. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University. Tanya has been a fellow at Yaddo and Blue Mountain Center. For more information, please visit: https://linktr.ee/tanyaturnsup