Roshini dinakaran biography channel

Roshini Thinakaran is a National Geographic Emerging Explorer (named in 2007), TED Global Fellow, Journalist, Photographer, Researcher, Humanitarian, and Anthropologist (Cultural).^[1] She also is a documentary filmmaker from Sri Lanka and the United States.^[2] Her fields of study include: women, filmmakers, and war.

Biography

Thinakaran was born in Sri Lanka and moved to the United States at age seven.^[2] Her family was fleeing the civil war going on at the time.^[3] Thinakaran attended George Mason University^[3] where she received a bachelor's degree in communication studies and a minor in journalism.

In 2005, she lived in Beirut, Lebanon for about six months.^[4]

Work

Thinakaran's first short film was made about Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia.^[3] The film was very short, but it "gained the attention of National Geographic."^[3] She became part of the National