Serve in India
Service Corps Current Fellows
Tanwi Nandini Islam
BA, Women's Studies, Vassar College, '04
Tanwi is a performer, playwright and youth educator. For the past two years she has been the Artistic Director of the Bushwick Youth Theatre Collective, a program at Make the Road by Walking, a community organization based in Brooklyn, where she has worked with youth for the past two years. She has produced and performed her play, Nayana's Passing at NYC's Dixon Place and at the West End Theatre. Prior to working with youth, Tanwi Nandini served as a domestic violence counselor and court advocate at the Battered Women's Services of Poughkeepsie, NY. Tanwi has traveled to Nairobi, Kenya to create a performance based on interviews with former political prisoners, and is currently working on a play about two women who meet, one exiled from Dhaka, Bangladesh, and one exiled from New Orleans, called Morning, Ella!