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Tania Katan is an award-winning author and creative instigator who believes in the power of storytelling. Katan has performed her stories in a wide range of platforms such as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, NPR Snap Judgment, TEDX, and Comedy Central Stage but she also has an online presence via her Youtube Channel and her personal blog. Her work has been written about in the New York Times, Huffington Post, TIME magazine, BuzzFeed, GLAMOUR, and others. Formerly a Curator of Literary and Performing Arts at a contemporary art museum, Katan made the leap into technology and is currently the Curator of Code at Axosoft. Katan is known in the tech world for her campaign, #ItWasNeverADress, which strives to shift the perception of women in a male dominated field. Katan's battle with cancer led her work with Stand Up to Cancer as well as her first memoir My One-Night Stand With Cancer, which has received several awards.

Author
Tania Katan is an award-winning author and playwright. Her memoir, My One-Night Stand With Cancer, has received the Stonewall Book Award, Publishing Triangle Award, and Lambda Literary Award. She is also the author of Pop (Childhood 6 of 1), her most recent memoir which was published in 2015. Her writings can also be found in other publications, such as The Huffington Post and The Advocate, and Stand Up to Cancer's website.

Playwright
Her solo-show Saving Tania’s Privates made its New York debut at Frigid New York Festival in 2011 where it won Audience Choice Award for Best Show and the Sold Out Run Award. Katan’s plays and solo-performance have also been seen at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Circle Repertory Theatre of NOTE, The Renberg Theatre, and more. Her work has gained national recognition, as publications such as New York Times, Huffington Post, DIVA Magazine, The Scotsman, The Advocate have all written about her work.

#ItWasNeverADress Campaign
Tania Katan is one of the co-creaters for #ItWasNeverADress. This campaign is focused on addressing gender inequality in the technology industry and beyond. The Scottsdale-based software company Axosoft is doing away with the age-old symbol of a generic lady in a dress, as seen on women's bathroom's, and instead replacing the "triangle dress" with a superhero cape. Katan first came up with the idea as a part of an inaugural Girls In Tech Catalyst Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Katan was asked to create an empowering logo for women in tech, which led to her new take on the traditional female symbol. #ItWasNeverADress hopes to spark conversations about gender norms, not only by encouraging women to be more involved in STEM fields, but the campaign also raises important points about representation of the LGBT community. This campaign became an Internet sensation, picked up by national news outlets such as CNN, The New York Times, TIME magazine and Yahoo!