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Tania Ketenjian '98 is a journalist, documentarian, and sound artist. She has produced nationally to PRI’s Studio 360, APM’s Weekend America, NPR’s Day to Day and PRI’s and BBC's The World. She has produced internationally for the BBC and the BBC World Service in England, CBC in Canada, ABC in Australia and RTE in Ireland. Tania hosts and produces a half-hour weekly program on the arts called Sight Unseen which airs on KALX in Berkeley, California and is syndicated on Resonance FM in London and Art on Air Radio, based in New York. She completed an audio documentary on happiness which was sponsored by The Institute of Noetic Sciences. Tania is also co-founder of Thin Air Media, a production company which fosters connection, communication, and empowerment to people through media and events. Most recently, she co-produced Birth, a public radio documentary about practices and perceptions of birth in America. She also co-produced Born which looks at the post partum experience in America. Both are distributed by PRI. Along with Birth is The Birth Tour, a nationwide gathering for people to talk about birth in their communities. She has written for Paper Magazine, Dazed and Confused, The Times UK and Icon Magazine. She also produces podcasts for companies and public spaces. Tania is a member of an artist’s collective, Quorum, where she contributes sound pieces for exhibitions, and she shares a studio space with artists collectively called Compound 21. Her most recent project, is The [Un]Observed, a radio magazine of candid conversations and explorations, works in sound and produced pieces from around the world. The [Un]Observed launched in February, 2010. Tania has often attributed much of what she is interested in and all that she has done professionally to her time at Bard. She believes that poetry, which she studied with John Ashbery, is very much like radio, distilling a story into a selection of potent moments. She writes, "while at Bard, I felt honored to be there, and I continue to be thankful for the education I received." Tania lives with her husband, Philip Wood, in San Francisco, California.

Links:
The [Un]Observed
An interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
An interview with Katy Grannan, former Bardian, for The Times of London