Tania Katan | |
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| Alma mater | Arizona State University |
| Occupation(s) | Author, Inspirational Speaker, Career Creativity Expert |
| Notable work | Creative Trespassing: How to Put Spark and Joy Back into Your Work and Life (Penguin Random House, Feb 2019), My One-Night Stand With Cancer: A Memoir, #ItWasNeverADress: Campaign |
| Partner | Angela Ellsworth 2006-present |
| Awards | Stonewall Book Award, Publishing Triangle Award, and Lambda Literary Award |
| Website | http://www.taniakatan.com/ |
Tania Katan is an author, public speaker, playwright, and creativity expert. Known around the world as a potent keynote speaker, Katan teaches people and companies to generate imaginative innovations and breakthroughs. Some of the organizations and conferences impacted by her talks include: CiscoLive!, Expedia, Amazon, Google, Business of Software, S.H.E. Summit, Humana, TEDxScottsdale, TEDxNCSSM, World Domination Summit, Uber, Etsy, Inbound, and Comedy Central Stage. In the tech world, Katan is known as the Co-Creator of #ItWasNeverADress, a social movement that has inspired over 50 million people worldwide to see, hear and celebrate women for the superheroes. The #ItWasNeverADress campaign strives to shift perceptions of women in male-dominated fields.[1]
Katan's battle with cancer led her to write for the cancer-awareness initiative Stand Up to Cancer and to publish her first memoir My One-Night Stand With Cancer. She adapted the memoir into a one-woman show, Saving Tania's Privates.[2] Katan's works have been presented internationally and won several awards.
- ^ "About "It Was NEVER a Dress!"". It was NEVER a dress!. 2015-05-05. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
- ^ Pela, Robrt L. (2010-09-16). "Saving Tania's Privates: Tania Katan May Be America's Foremost Jewish Lesbian Breast Cancer Survivor". Phoenix New Times. Retrieved 2019-03-02.