Dawn Garcia is Los Angeles born and raised, an award winning screenwriter, writer, journalist and magazine editor. She is the Founder of ATOD Magazine and Mary Effen Sunshine Productions, CoFounder of Rise Together Media, Managing Editor of Sensi Magazine Southern California, and is a Member of the Resistance Squad, LA LGBT Center's Rapid Response Policy Team. She is a respected member of the press and member of several organizations including Women in Entertainment, NYWIFT, NAHJ, and Society of Environmental Journalists.
She is a mother, partner, and advocate of racial/gender/environmental justice.