Bio: Theeba Soundararajan

Theeba Soundararajan is a 25-year-old Tamil Dalit web and graphic designer, translator, and activist. Her works include working with youth and adults in San Francisco, California, and Rio de Janiero, Brazil, on the basics of web and graphic design, producing messages to stop the war in Afghanistan, and producing pieces urging for equal land reform in Brazil.

Theeba currently works with WITNESS, an organization that uses video to document human rights violations. Through WITNESS, Theeba has helped to develop curriculum around video organizing, which encompasses documenting human rights violations under violent situations (war, riots, police brutality), using video as evidence before courts, and using video as a tool for community organizing.

She has worked with partner organizations in the United States, Brazil, and India.

Before WITNESS, Theeba co-founded Third World Majority, a new media resource center which challenges the notion that a media organization cannot also do grassroots political organizing. Our programs explore the nature of politicized new media production which include: digital video, the web, graphic design, sound engineering, and animation. Through our efforts and collaborations with other organizations, we support organizing in real, representational, and virtual worlds. She will soon develop curriculum, around web activism.

You can send email to Theeba Soundararajan at theeba@onlinepolicy.org

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