Tanya Selvaratnam is a writer and an Emmy-nominated and Webby-winning filmmaker, who has collaborated with Planned Parenthood, Aubin Pictures, Glamour Women of the Year, and the Vision & Justice Project. She is also a board member and advisor of For Freedoms and, with Laurie Anderson and Laura Michalchyshyn, a cofounder of The Federation. She has produced projects by Gabri Christa, Lisa Cortés, Liz Garbus, CatherineGund, Le Tigre and Laura Parnes, Tiffany Shlain, Mickalene Thomas, Lucy Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, and Jed Weintrob, among others. Her films have premiered at Sundance, Berlin, SXSW, and Tribeca; and played on HBO, IFC, PBS, Starz, and the Sundance Channel. Selvaratnam is the author of The Big Lie and the forthcoming Assume Nothing: A Memoir of Intimate Violence, and her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Glamour, CNN, and McSweeney’s