Big Lie: Motherhood (Selvaratnam) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—N/A
• Where—Sri Lanka
• Raised—Long Beach, California, USA
• Education—B.A., M.A., Harvard University
• Currently—Cambridge, Massachusetts; New York, New York


Born in Sri Lanka and raised in Long Beach, CA, Tanya Selvaratnam is a writer, producer, theater artist, and activist. As a producer, recent projects include Mickalene Thomas’s Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman (on HBO); the Rockefeller Foundation-funded MADE HERE; Catherine Gund’s What’s On Your Plate? (Discovery’s Planet Green), and Chiara Clemente’s Beginnings (Sundance Channel, Webby Award).

Since 2008, she has been the Communications and Special Projects Officer for the Rubell Family Collection. As an activist, she has worked with the Ms. Foundation for Women, the Third Wave Foundation, the NGO Forum on Women, and the World Health Organization. She received her graduate and undergraduate degrees in Chinese language and history from Harvard University. (From the author.)

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