Fiona is a start-up and communications savant playing pivotal roles in the formation of a 24-hour news channel, a national public policy organization and a communications directorate inside a high profile international ministry.Most recently Fiona was the Vice President for Campaigns for nonprofit education advocacy and policy organization. Prior to that she spent over a decade in television at FOX News covering the big stories of the early nineties through the early aughts. It wasn’t until Fiona moved to Kabul, Afghanistan that she realized her true passion: being a part of something real and impactful. TV, she felt, was wonderful in so many ways, but is just “air.” In Afghanistan Fiona launched the Communications Department for the Ministry of Women's Affairs to advocate for and protect Afghani women. Upon returning to the United States, Fiona continued to work in areas that impact a majority of the population: healthcare and public education reform.She received three Emmys for her work in television news and an “Advocate of the Year” award from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Fiona has lived in Afghanistan, England, Sweden, Saudi Arabia and the Philippines andtraveled extensively through six continents. In her spare time she can be found underwateror submitting to the New Yorker caption contest. She graduated from the University ofVirginia with at B.A. in foreign affairs.