Anoushka Ratnarajah is a queer, mixed race femme of Sri Lankan and British ancestry, and an inter-disciplinary and transnational artist and arts organizer. She has worked as a producer, performer, writer, facilitator and arts organizer with cultural and arts organizations in Vancouver, Montreal and New York. Anoushka is the co-Artistic Director at Out On Screen, which produces the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, an associate artist and facilitator with Shapeshift Arts, and an associate artist and producer with Kalik Arts, an interdisciplinary arts company and spaceship. Anoushka has been a fellow with The Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics and Voices of Our Nation Arts. She has a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and an MA in Arts Politics from NYU.