CV Tessa Venell 9 January 2012 (PDF)

Tessa Venell is a storyteller who has been interested chiefly in China. She made a film about the environmental movement in China at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and continues to be interested in the Chinese emerging environmental movement. Tessa worked at Harvard as a faculty assistant from July 2011-December 2011 as she waited for funding to come through for her next film project, which is also focused on China. Currently Tessa is telling a different story in a book project that she is working on with editor Evan Sweeney, and is about the year she spent in hospitals in 2006 with five broken bones and a severe traumatic brain injury. In her book, she tells the story of the subsequent recovery from her life-threatening injuries. Formerly, Tessa has worked in public media at PBS International, supporting the licensing of films to international broadcasters.