Fiona Dawson

Fiona Dawson is an Emmy®-nominated and award-winning filmmaker, speaker, and author who has been advocating for the LGBTQ+ community for over two decades. Her short film Transgender, at War and in Love (2015) for the New York Times and feature documentary TransMilitary (2018) helped elevate the stories of active-duty transgender service members to end their ban from the US military. Relating her personal experiences as a cisgender, gay, and then bisexual woman, Fiona dissolves stereotypes to reveal vulnerability, courage, and empathy in various media forms through her company, Free Lion Productions.