A writer, actor, and child-rights activist, Nandana Dev Sen is the author of six children’s books, translated into more than 15 languages globally. She grew up in India, England and America, and has starred in 20 feature films from four continents (and in multiple languages). Nandana’s first book, Kangaroo Kisses, was selected by 320 UK nurseries as a “Book of Excellence,” and her interactive workshops have been loved, in person, by more than 50,000 young people across the world.
After studying literature at Harvard and filmmaking at U.S.C., Nandana worked as a book editor, a screenwriter, an interpreter for refugees, an advocate for child protection, and as Princess Jasmine in Disneyland. The winner of several academic and poetry prizes, Best Actress awards, as well as the Last-Girl Champion Award for Child Protection, Nandana is Artist Ambassador for Save the Children India, Global Author Advocate for Room to Read, and a Director of the Women’s Refugee Commission, New York, where she chairs the Program and Advocacy Committee. Nandana loves to eat, bike, dance, rhyme, and argue.
