Nayantara Sen is an organizer, activist and creative writer who engages anti-oppression work, especially as it relates to women of color and diasporic and migrant communities. She currently works at the Applied Research Center, where she facilitates trainings and workshops on racial equity, assists with strategic coaching on racial justice solutions, and provides administrative support to the Executive office.
Nayantara has a degree from Michigan State University in Postcolonial and Diasporic Literature, with specializations in Asian Pacific American Studies and Women, Gender and Social Justice Studies. She has organized against forced deportations and the expansion of the federal 287(g) program, and worked at anti-trafficking campaigns in India, teaching indigenous art therapy, English literacy and rehabilitation skills to youth. Nayantara also worked in film programming for several years as the Program Director of an independent film festival in Michigan.
A first generation immigrant herself, Nayantara writes and performs short fiction and poetry in English, Bengali, Hindi and Urdu. She is avidly interested in literature, indie film, topography and cooking. As TFP intern, she hopes to learn Boal’s teachings and techniques and deploy them towards catalytic social change.
