Dawn Comer Jefferson

Dawn Comer Jefferson is an Emmy nominated, award winning writer. On television, Dawn wrote on the legal drama, Judging Amy, served as writer/consulting producer on MTV’s teen soap, South of Nowhere, freelanced on the action drama, NCIS, and developed a family drama pilot at NBC Universal Studios. She was nominated for an Emmy for writing the Fox animated film, Our Friend, Martin, and for the last seven years has written Emmy winning arts programming for PBS. In addition to the Emmy, Dawn was nominated for an Entertainment Industry Council Prism Award, and won a Literacy in Media Award and an NAACP Image Award for Theater. Dawn started her career in the Walt Disney Writers Program. In 2011 and 2013, Dawn was selected as a Writers Guild of America Writers Access Project Honoree. In 2012, she was the first CBS Daytime Diversity Fellow, writing for The Young and the Restless and The Bold & The Beautiful for CBS/Bell Dramatic Serial. In 2017, she served on the national panel of the McKnight Media Artists Fellowship search. As a non-fiction writer, Dawn has written about children, families, and public policy issues for national print and online media including Garnet News, Working Mother, Fit Pregnancy Magazine, and MomsRising, and her essays have been featured in the anthologies, A Woman Alone and Go Girl: The Black Woman’s Guide to Travel and Adventure. She adapted, produced and directed the 8-part NPR radio series adaptation of the biography, Maggie’s American Dream, and co-wrote the nonfiction book, Three Ring Circus: How Real Couples Balance Marriage, Work, and Family, and the African American historical children’s fiction, The Promise. Dawn has two children and is married to a rocket scientist (really), who navigates missions to the moon and Mars.