Meg McLagan is a filmmaker and anthropologist. Her most recent film Lioness (co-directed with Daria Sommers) aired on the PBS series Independent Lens. McLagan’s work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Sundance Documentary Fund, Impact Partners, New York State Council on the Arts, Chicken & Egg Pictures, the Fledgling Fund, and Rockefeller Family & Associates, and Open Society Institute. McLagan has published essays on transnational Tibet activism, human rights, and the documentary form, and is co-editor, with Yates McKee, of Sensible Politics: The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Activism (Zone Books, 2012). She teaches at Columbia University.