Bio

Vanessa Vigneswaramoorthy,

She/Her

Community Advisory Circle Member

Vanessa Vigneswaramoorthy is a Tamil settler artist, writer, and researcher raised on Treaty 13 and 14 territory, where she continues to live and work. Her projects look at Tamil diaspora, community care, food, labour, storytelling, and anti-oppressive futures. She is currently working on an MA in Adult Education and Community Development, looking at Tamil diasporic experience and South Asian-Indigenous relations on Turtle Island. She took part in the IYR Grounded Communities program in 2023, and is excited to help make future IYR programming as transformative for others as it was for her.

Vanessa Vigneswaramoorthy