Tess Thackara

Tess Thackara is director of Survival International USA, a human rights group that helps tribal peoples around the world defend their rights. She holds a BA degree in English Literature from Trinity College, Dublin, and has completed internships at Phaidon Press, and McSweeney’s—where she contributed research to Dave Eggers’s creative nonfiction work, Zeitoun. Her photography has been exhibited in London, and her film One Plastic Beach is about artists Richard and Judith Lang.