Dawn Ennis

Dawn Ennis (she/her) is an award-winning journalist for Forbes.com, The Daily Beast, Out Magazine, Senior Executive, CTVoice Magazine and StarTrek.com. She is also the sports editor for the Los Angeles Blade, an on-air correspondent for “CTVoice Out Loud” on WTNH-TV and hosts the “RiseUP With Dawn Ennis” talk show. In 2013, Ennis was the first transgender journalist in the U.S. to come out in network TV news. She teaches journalism, advertising, public relations, podcasting and media literacy at the University of Hartford in Connecticut, and her most important job is that of mom to her three children. She is based in Connecticut and speaks English as well as some Spanish and French.