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Dawn Ennis is an award-winning journalist, a blogger at lifeafterdawn.com, HuffPost and Medium, and the host of a talk show on YouTube: “RiseUP With Dawn Ennis.”

Before moving to online journalism, she was an executive producer at several TV stations across the country. She got her start in New York City, working simultaneously at 1010 WINS radio, and at CNN. Ennis worked her way up to producing for CBS, NBC, and ABC News. She was one of the founders of New York 1 News, 28 Tampa Bay News and Verizon Fios1 News. She also worked at Politico as an executive producer during the 2008 election, where she created a pilot for a Sunday morning talk show.

Ennis was America's first transgender journalist in a TV network newsroom when she came out 5 years ago. Since then, she's spoken as an advocate for transgender rights at national media, religious and civil rights conventions, as well as on TV and on NPR.

She now writes content for Rooftop Digital and reports for NBC News, The Daily Beast, The Advocate, The Los Angeles Blade, NewNowNext, Into, GO Magazine and Outsports. In addition, she was the assistant editor at LGBTQ Nation and the news editor at The Advocate, serving in both positions as the first out transgender editor on staff.

She is also a widow who does the job of mom for three children who call her "Dad."

Ennis and her family reside in Connecticut with their cat, Faith.