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 nearly two decades. A proud bisexual queer 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. Since then, she has collaborated with musicians, filmmakers, and writers on entertainment projects that have helped pass groundbreaking laws.
In 2025, Christina received a proclamation from the City of West Hollywood recognizing Rewrite the BiLine for its industry leadership. Christina also has been honored with the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award, which celebrates leaders under the age of 40 who have made a positive change on a broad public policy issue. In addition, she is a recipient of the James Irvine Leadership Award, an Ashoka Fellowship, and an Echoing Green Fellowship.
Christina has written for Newsweek, InStyle Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, Forbes, USA Today, Salon, and The Hill, among others. Her documentary shorts have been supported by Cal Humanities and screened in film festivals in Mexico City and New York City. She speaks regularly on issues of social justice at the intersection of business, law, and entertainment with media appearances including MSNBC’s The Beat with Ari Melber, The Gaily Show, NBC, CBS, and NPR’s All Things Considered.
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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 It Gets Better.
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®
“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!”
"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."