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Her work at the Heinz Endowments focuses on environmental health issues. Dorsey is also a member of the Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA and serves on the economic, social and cultural rights advisory committee. With a doctorate in political science, Dorsey has worked at the nexus of advocacy and academic research to advance the work of NGOs in the human rights, environmental, and development fields. She is the former Executive Director of the Rachel Carson Institute and Associate Professor of Political Science at Chatham College. Under Dorsey’s leadership, the Rachel Carson Institute developed international programs on women’s environmental health and development, created resources and networks for women’s environmental leadership, and developed new curricula for environmental studies at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Prior to coming to Chatham, Dorsey served as the director of the Just Earth! Program on human rights and the environment at Amnesty International USA, where she conducted research and developed campaign actions on the global link between human rights and environmental issues. Prior to the Just Earth position, Dorsey served as National Field Director for Amnesty International, responsible for developing and evaluating organizing strategies and membership development programs. While on staff at Amnesty, Dorsey was also an adjunct associate professor of international politics at the School of International Service, where she created a summer institute on human rights, and served as a fellow at the Center for the Study of the Global South, both at American University.
Previously, Dr. Dorsey was a program officer at the Stanley Foundation, conducting research and developing programs on United Nations policy and UN-NGO relations. Dorsey has worked in the Africa region, specifically on African human rights policy issues, including serving for four years as Amnesty International’s country specialist on Kenya, a decade plus advocacy against apartheid, academic research on the anti-apartheid movement, policy analysis and public education on genocide in Rwanda, and current efforts on AIDS in Africa as a human rights issue. She was a Fulbright Scholar in South Africa in 1992-1993, at the University of the Witwatersrand, conducting research on human rights in a post-Apartheid South Africa. She is currently an adjunct professor of International Politics in the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University. She has published numerous articles and monographs on rights-based approaches to development, women’s environmental health and human rights, human rights policy and practice, and Africa.
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