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Tanya Selvaratnam: Biography at a Glance
- Tanya Selvaratnam is an Emmy-nominated, Webby-winning multimedia storyteller, known for her books Assume Nothing, about intimate violence, and The Big Lie, about fertility awareness.
- A sought-after social impact advisor, she has worked with Open Future Lab, Pop Culture Collaborative, For Freedoms, and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
- Selvaratnam has spoken at key global forums, including the Aspen Ideas Festival and Skoll World Forum, on the intersection of art, democracy, and justice.
- She has facilitated storytelling workshops for educational institutions and both governmental and non-governmental organizations.
- Selvaratnam offers unique insights into the transformative power of storytelling, making her an inspiring choice for organizations looking to drive social impact and foster meaningful change.
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Tanya Selvaratnam is an Emmy-nominated and Webby-winning multimedia storyteller and advocate. She is the author of Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence (Harper, 2021) and The Big Lie: Motherhood, Feminism, and the Reality of the Biological Clock (Prometheus, 2014). Her forthcoming work, Love Me and Leave Me, continues her exploration of intimacy, trauma, and transformation, and has been supported by residencies at Yaddo, the Hundredth Hill, and Indiana University.
Her previous books received widespread media attention, with features and interviews in People, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, NPR, CNN, Fox News, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Good Morning America. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, Elle, Glamour, Cosmo, NBC News, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.
In 2025, she delivered the TEDx Talk “Truth Is Power: Rewriting the Narrative on Domestic Violence” in Berlin. A frequent public speaker, she has appeared at global conferences including the Skoll World Forum, Aspen Ideas Festival, the Clinton Global Initiative, and numerous UN and WHO events. She facilitates workshops on storytelling as a pathway to transformation and social change for educational institutions as well as governmental and non-governmental organizations.
As a producer and director, Selvaratnam has collaborated with major artists and organizations such as Carrie Mae Weems, Mickalene Thomas, Catherine Gund, Sarah Lewis, the Ms. Foundation, Sundance Film Festival, and Condé Nast. Her credits include critically acclaimed films such as Born to Fly (Emmy nomination) about daredevil choreographer Elizabeth Streb, Aggie about collector and philanthropist Agnes Gund and her founding of the Art for Justice Fund to fight mass incarceration, and Love to the Max (Emmy nomination, GLAAD Media Award nomination) about the targeting of trans kids through the experience of the Briggle family in Texas.
Born in Sri Lanka and raised in California, she holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Chinese language and legal history from Harvard University. She lives between New York City and Portland, Oregon.
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