MEET OUR LEADERSHIP
Christina Fialho
(She/Her)
Founder & President
Christina is an award-winning social entrepreneur, attorney, and activist who has been advocating for LGBTQ+ issues for two decades. A proud bisexual woman, she enjoys bringing to life characters that help shift culture and challenge injustice. Her industry experience began as a consultant on Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, while exposing the abuse in the U.S. immigration detention system as the co-founder/executive director of Freedom for Immigrants.
Christina is now reshaping the stories and the systems that impact bi+ people and non-nuclear families. Co-author of the first industry guide on bi+ representation on screen, Christina collaborates with film and TV creators to expand authentic bi+ and polyamorous storylines. She also has established major legal protections for bi+ people and non-nuclear families, including helping advance the first multi-partner domestic partnership registry in California.
In 2025, Christina received a proclamation from the City of West Hollywood recognizing Rewrite the BiLine for its industry leadership. She also has been honored with the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award, the James Irvine Leadership Award, an Ashoka Fellowship, an Echoing Green Fellowship, and commendations from the California State Senate.
Her insights have been featured in The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Out Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, and Forbes, among other publications. She is frequently invited to speak on LGBTQ+ rights, law, and entertainment in national media and other forums, such as Stanford University, MS Now, and the International Bisexual Research Conference.
Christina has held director and residency roles at USC’s Marshall School of Business and UCSD’s Rady School of Management. She currently serves on the board of directors of It Gets Better.
Rhiannon Ling
(She/Her)
Creative Consultant
Rhiannon is a bisexual theatre- and filmmaker, specializing in the creation and development of community-engaged story across mediums. At Rewrite the BiLine, she provides script consulting on plays and musicals, as well as research guidance and mentorship on devised work, through a queer pedagogy lens. She is most passionate about amplifying the voices of those silenced, providing unity in discomfort, and sparking genuine query between opposition.
Rhiannon's own work revolves around gender, sexuality, and their entwining with history, psychology, politics, and the arts. Selected credits include: Monsters in Our Blood, Sadie, Best Time to Be Alive, The City of Forget-Me-Nots, Manic Pixie Dream Girl Goes to Brunch (playwright); The Selkie Bride, Beethoven: Live in Concert!, (beyond) Doomsday Scrolling, This Mortal Life Also (dramaturg). Rhiannon is a recipient of the Mayor’s Arts Award, and has been honored by the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference, SheNYC Arts, and NormalAve. Her work has been funded by the NEA and RedLine Arts in Society. She is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association, Ring of Keys, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, and Expand the Canon. She holds a BFA in Theatre Arts and Writing from CAP21 Conservatory/Molloy College.
Our Movement Champions
Our team is fueled by an unwavering belief in the power of diverse stories to inspire change. Our movement champions--visionary actors, writers, producers, filmmakers, and advocates--bring their unique voices, perspectives, and creativity to amplify bi+ and poly narratives. Every step we take together is a step toward a more inclusive, representative industry and society.
"Celebrating bi+ and poly identities in media is not just about visibility; it's about affirming the complex and rich experiences of individuals beyond monochromatic narratives. When we embrace this diversity, we allow for a more honest and inclusive storytelling that resonates with the many, not just the few."
Patrisse Cullors (she/her)
Artist & Abolitionist
"People are afraid of what they don’t understand, which is why authentic, human-focused bi+ representation across all media platforms is crucial to shaping the future of bi+ stories and characters. LGBTQIA+ stories don’t just center around the discovery of a person’s sexuality, their ‘coming out,’ or their trauma, so it’s high time we write characters that are as fully-formed and truthful as the cis-het person in the same scene. The sooner that studios and production companies realize that bi+ characters can exist in media without having to explain their validity, the better."
Tamiah Bantum (she/they)
Motion Capture Actor & Film Director
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"It has been my overwhelming experience that bi+ people see the world with enormous nuance. They have an inherent understanding that most things in life are not black and white. In light of our intensely polarized political and social climate, I think it's vitally important that audiences are given characters who not only reflect the diversity of the real world, but who also show us all what's possible when we see people/life/the world in shades of grey. I truly believe bi+ characters are uniquely capable of embodying and exemplifying the kind of nuanced perspectives our society desperately needs in order to heal."
Nicole Pacent (she/her)
Actor, Singer, Writer, Activist
"I’ve searched my whole life to see myself in a film or TV character. l will not stop fighting for our silent community because everyone deserves to find themselves in the stories we tell."
"Bi+ people make up the majority of the LGBTQ+ community. With nearly 17 Million bi+ people in the United States, the bi+ community is still being overlooked in film and television. We are long overdue for the accurate representation of our community on the big & small screens. I dream about the day I get to authentically portray a Bisexual man on screen."
Ronen Rubinstein (he/him)
Actor & Musician
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"Positive, accurate, and nuanced bi+ representation in media is different for different bi+ people. But right now the monolith, tragic, hypersexualized tropes prevail. Given one in six Gen Z identifies as bisexual, the future is very queer and nonbinary sexual orientations need to be uplifted and explained in their full multidimensional perspective. For the psychological and physical health of generations to come positive representation of bi+ people and their stories is more urgent than ever."
Fiona Dawson (she/her)
Filmmaker, Speaker, & Advocate
Founder & Director, Free Lion Productions
Co-founder, BiPlus Organizing US
"As a bi man, I often ask myself what is more damaging, depictions of bisexuality that are stereotypical and hurtful, or nonexistent? This is the state of affairs for many of us engaging with bi-depictions in media and arts. It's dehumanizing when huge platforms repeatedly tell you that you don't 'exist,' and when you do 'exist,' you are a vampire, a serial killer, floating in outer space 1000 years from now, or a vector for lies and deceit. People use media and arts as a reference for how to behave in their lives. Bi people (we) are everything. We are your fathers, brothers, family, and friends!"
Ross Victory (he/him)
Author, Artist, Activist
"We so often live in a world of forced binary or forced dichotomy, leaving the complexity of human nature out of the conversation. By celebrating bi+ identities as what we are—human, natural, beautifully outside of the supposed binary—we allow our environments to broaden, our minds and hearts and souls to expand. Accurate representation across media brings humanization to the forefront, and ultimately allows bi+ individuals to simply be, without denial or fear or self-hatred. I so wish I had had this type of representation growing up; it would have given me a sense of normalcy and acceptance, not of shame and repression. I am dedicated to advocating, every day, for bi+ peoples’ past, present, and future to appear on screen and stage, for young and old alike to experience what it’s like to feel human. Simply, complicatedly human."
"Representation of bi+ people and nontraditional families in film, TV, and media is so important because it reflects the full spectrum of our lived experiences. As a Black, queer person, I know firsthand how erasure and misrepresentation can limit our narratives and impact not only how we’re seen and treated, but how we understand ourselves as well. We need stories that show the beauty, complexity, and gifts of who we are—not just as individuals, but in the diverse ways we create family and community."
Dr. Avriel Epps (she/they)
AI Researcher, Author, Voice Actor
Co-Founder, AI for Abolition
Fellow, UCLA Center for Race & Digital Justice
"Often the first point of contact for folks who do not knowingly have bi+ people in their lives is media representations. When those media representations erase us from the news or paint us as confused, promiscuous, or just all out villains, negative stereotypes are reinforced for media consumers. We need to curb this harm with positive media representations and characterizations of bi+ people. Rewrite the BiLine is a great place to start."
Nicole Kristal (she/her)
Founder & Executive Director, Still Bisexual
Screenwriter, Do You Have a Cat?
"As a bi+, disabled, survivor of sexual violence who is also a writer, actor, and activist - I cannot overstate how strongly I believe that culture is shaped by the stories we tell and the people who get to tell them. I didn't come out until later in life largely because I had never seen myself represented by media, art, or entertainment. It's only been in the past few years that bi+ representation has begun to exist in a way that allowed me to finally see - and therefore understand - my own identity through the art that I was consuming. The bi+ community makes up the vast majority of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and yet our existence across art, entertainment, and media is still sorely lacking. We need authentic, nuanced, normalized portrayals of the bi+ community and we need it now. Representation saves lives and it is also good for business. Hiring bi+ folks to tell our own stories - and to portray them on screen - is essential for the future of storytelling."
Sarah Ann Masse (she/her)
Actor, writer, filmmaker, comedian, activist
Founder and President, Hire Survivors Hollywood®
"It took me so long to unravel the truth of my own bisexuality because I didn't see examples of what that could look like when I was growing up. Since mainstream media is such a necessary tool for changing hearts and minds, the goal of my work is always to help people feel less alone by giving voice to the parts of my own experience that I once felt scared or ashamed of. Queerness to me is more than an identity - it's a mindset, a way of perceiving culture and social dynamics that questions why certain structures exist and how we can do things differently. What's so gorgeous about the bisexual experience is an acceptance that we contain multitudes and are expansive beyond any one role prescribed to us - which can also be said of all people."
"Bi+ people are often portrayed as feminine, over sexualized fantasies for the cis-het male gaze or as part of a phase for women to try. These narratives cause so much harm, because it categorizes us into narrow boxes that have been built by other people for us to fit into. These narratives reduce female bodied women into objects intended to satisfy cis-het men and ignore the reality that bi+ people aren't always female bodied. These narratives reinforce bi+ erasure, where people's identities are invalidated by a society that often only acknowledges binary thinking. Furthermore, the idea that it's okay for women/female bodied people to be bi+ within the male gaze while denouncing other bi+ people is homophobic. All bi+ people are human beings first. We should be the ones who decide how we want to be seen in the world."
Crystal Whiteaker (she/her)
Author & Founder/CEO of Crystal Lily Creative
“LGBTQ+ people have had to hide in the shadows to exist, even today. We need film, television, and the media to tell more accurate and uplifting stories of the LGBTQ+ community, especially of bi+ people who make up a majority of our community. Christina's collaborative spirit and unwavering commitment to social justice make her an invaluable leader in this crucial cause."
“Seeing nuanced, compassionate, and authentic bi+ stories is vital because storytelling shapes our world. Stories have the power to shift perception, expand minds, and open hearts. Stories can also hold up a mirror and reveal aspects of ourselves. As someone who came out as bi+ later in life, I struggled for years to find where I ‘fit.’ As a passionate TV, film, and book lover, I always searched for myself in media, but I never found anything that quite captured my experience. Now as a proud bi+ storyteller, I am passionate about creating more bi+ characters that we can root for, celebrate with, and see ourselves in. I know I am one of many committed to this mission, and I feel honored to be doing it alongside the talented Rewrite the BiLine community.”
Allie Baker (she/her)
Writer & Content Consultant
“Our season wouldn’t have been as poignant or as tragically realistic without Christina and her team's collaboration and input. As a writer and executive producer, I cannot recommend Christina enough!”