Mohana Rajakumar

Mohana is a South Asian American novelist, scholar, and screenwriter, with a PhD in English, who tells women-centric stories in unusual settings. In Mohana’s writing, audiences experience what it means to be brown and female in a supposedly post racial era. She creates humorous cultural content like in her solo show Being Brown is My Superpower, which channels a lifetime of cultural misunderstandings. Mohana was a semi-finalist in the Humanitas Awards and at the Austin Film Festival. Most recently, she wrote and produced Me Against the World, a collegiate romantic comedy, with diverse leads and a sports element.