Dawn D. Valadez is the Director of Workforce & Artist Development at BAVC Media. She is responsible for training young adults and people of all ages in media careers. Dawn co-directs national artistic programming such as the Media Maker Fellowship.
Dawn Valadez is a second-generation Xicana, fiercely independent, disabled, queer filmmaker and artist.
Along with the Colectiva Varina, their film Querida Fátima (in post) won the 2024 DocLands Jury Prize for their recorded pitch. Dawn is the Producer/Co-director of The Pushouts (with Katie Galloway, 2018), earning the 2019 Imagen Best Documentary award.
Dawn loves road trips, creating art with friends, protesting so many things, and checking out all types of local music or hanging with her chiweenie, Chuy.
