Rachel Lyon, president of Lioness Media Arts, is an Emmy Award-winning director, producer, and writer.  Ms Lyon's newest documentary, Race to Execution, explores the way race "infects" every aspect of America's death penalty system from discovering a victim to the stark finish in the execution chamber.

Ms. Lyon is currently Associate Professor in Media and Culture at Bentley College. She has also taught at CUNY: Queens College, Reinhardt College, Northwestern University, New York University, and Columbia College. Ms. Lyon has produced 3 feature films, 60 documentaries and two-series. Lyon received her Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and is a frequent guest lecturer at universities and film workshops, such as the 2003 Atlanta Film Festival, Society for Cinema & Media Studies, and the American Studies Association.

Lyon's documentaries have impacted the national consciousness including break-through social-issue films such as her National Emmy-awarding winning Men Who Molest for FRONTLINE; exposing the black market trade of selling plutonium in The Terror Trade for CNN; revealing the devastating plight of Tibetan emigrants in Shadow over Tibet; and disclosing the startling effects of fundamentalism in The Glory and the Power. Ms. Lyon has consistently worked with top-notch, Academy Award winning talent and has served with the National Geographic Television, PBS, and as senior producer for Ted Turner. Her Mr. Dreyfuss Goes to Washington is a behind-the-scenes history of Washington, DC hosted by Academy Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss for The History Channel.