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Tanya Selvaratnam

Artist, Writer & Producer; Author of "Assume Nothing" & "The Big Lie;" Senior Director of Pop Culture Collaborative

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Tanya Selvaratnam Biography

Tanya Selvaratnam is a writer, artist, and an Emmy-nominated and multiple Webby-winning producer with thirty years of experience in the arts and social justice.

Born in Sri Lanka and raised in Long Beach, CA, Selvaratnam is based in New York City and Portland, Oregon. She is the Senior Director, Gender Justice Narratives, for the Pop Culture Collaborative and the author of numerous essays and two books: "Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence" and "THE BIG LIE." With the artist Laurie Anderson and the producer Laura Michalchyshyn, Selvaratnam is a cofounder of The Federation: a coalition of artists, organizations, and allies committed to keeping cultural borders open and showing how art unites us. She has also been an advisor and producer for For Freedoms, which catalyzes public discourse and civic engagement through the arts; specifically, she worked on the organization’s 50 State Initiative as well as the For Freedoms Congress.

Most recently, she produced for the Ms. Foundation for Women; The Vision & Justice Project, founded by Professor Sarah Lewis from Harvard University; Glamour Women of the Year; The Meteor; Joy To The Polls; Invisible Hand; The Shed multi-arts center; the band Pink Martini, and Planned Parenthood. Since 2007, she has been a producer with Aubin Pictures, founded by Catherine Gund. Among the many films Selvaratnam has produced for Aubin is AGGIE about collector and philanthropist Agnes Gund who created the Art for Justice Fund to fight mass incarceration.

Selvaratnam’s producing range includes film and television, music, branded content, live events, large-scale convenings, and exhibitions. Her films have played on HBO, IFC, PBS, Showtime, Starz, Refinery29,Vice, and the Sundance Channel; and have premiered at Sundance, Berlin, Tribeca, and SXSW. Selvaratnam has worked on live events at the Guggenheim Museum, the Hammer Museum, Kennedy Center, The Kitchen, MOCA Los Angeles, Park Avenue Armory, Performance Space New York, and Rubell Family Collection.

Selvaratnam has spoken at conferences and festivals around the world, such as various United Nations and World Health Organization events as well as the Aspen Ideas Festival, New York Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Brooklyn Book Festival, Glamour Summit, and Skoll World Forum. She has been a commentator on subjects such as the rights and safety of women and children, and the interplay of art and democracy. She has also conducted workshops with students of all ages, from elementary school through graduate school. She has been a fellow at Yaddo and Blue Mountain Center, and has received grants from the Ford Foundation, the Ettinger Foundation, MAP Fund, and Pop Culture Collaborative.

As a performer, Selvaratnam has toured to dozens of cities with companies including The Wooster Group and The Builders Association; and been a guest actor at New Dramatists, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Voice & Vision Theater, and the Institute on Arts and Civic Dialogue. She has played on stages at prestigious venues around the world, such as New York’s Brooklyn Academy of Music and Lincoln Center, London’s Barbican Theatre, and Singapore’s Victoria Theatre.

She has served on the boards of the Third Wave Fund, For Freedoms, BoomArts, The Wooster Group, Groundswell Community Mural Project, and Let It Ripple; and is an advisor to The DO School, a Germany-based and internationally focused organization that trains and empowers impact entrepreneurs to solve the big challenges of our time.

Selvaratnam received her graduate and undergraduate degrees in Chinese language and legal history from Harvard University. Her Masters thesis on women’s organizations in post-Tiananmen China was published in the Journal of Law and Politics.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 08/02/2024.

Tanya Selvaratnam Videos

  • Gildenhorn Book Talk with Tanya Selvaratnam
    Gildenhorn Book Talk with Tanya Selvaratnam
    The Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series is a regular series in Washington, DC, presenting informal conversations with notable authors of current...
  • #MeToo... Two Years Later - Glamour Women of the Year Summit
    #MeToo... Two Years Later - Glamour Women of the Year Summit
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Tanya Selvaratnam Books

  • Assume Nothing: A Memoir Of Intimate Violence
    Assume Nothing: A Memoir Of Intimate Violence
  • The Big Lie: Motherhood, Feminism, and the Reality of the Biological Clock
    The Big Lie: Motherhood, Feminism, and the Reality of the Biological Clock

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