Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg

Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg is an educator and film consultant living in Toronto. She researches, writes and speaks on environmental health, equality, social justice, economic justice, environmental justice, peace, and energy issues.

Biography

Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg PhD, MES, holds a Masters in Environmental Studies (York University) and a PhD (University of Toronto). She has worked with the National Film Board of Canada, school boards, non governmental organizations, health professionals and policy groups on these issues. She was principal research consultant and associate producer of the documentary video, Exposure: Environmental Links to Breast Cancer and researcher/writer of the accompanying guidebook "Taking Action for a Healthy Future". She has led numerous training trainers workshops using these materials as educational tools. She has recently researched and produced Toxic Trespass, a documentary on children's health and the environment as a co-production with the National Film Board of Canada.and has co-written the accompanying educational resource guide, "Taking Action on Children's Health and the Environment".

Dorothy is Volunteer Education Coordinator of the Women's Healthy Environments Network (WHEN). She teaches "Environmental Health, Transformative Higher Education and Policy Change: Education for Social and Ecosystem Healing" at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto,

Dorothy was director of a project to produce the publication "Les femmes s'en melent: Making a World of Difference: A Directory of Women in Canada Specializing in Global Issues". The global issues included development, environment, peace and related social justice and economic issues. Dorothy was the Development and Disarmament Coordinator at the Canadian Council for International Cooperation (1986–88).

Awards

Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada, a Governor General of Canada Award
United Nations Environmental Program Award (UNEP) for Environmental Stewardship
Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) Award for Cancer Prevention
Biophilia (Love of Life) Award of the Jazzpur Society of Windsor
2005 Women of the Year Award, America Library Society
The Rosalie Bertell Award for Exemplary Public Service 2009
The International Holistic Tourism Educational Award for the Promotion of the International Peace Garden Program on Peace and Sustainability 2010
The Tom Perry Award for Peace Education, Physicians for Global Survival 2010

Award to Toxic Trespass:Best Health and Safety Documentary at the Canadian International Labour Film Festival from the Ontario Workers Health and Safety Centre, 2009.

Selected publications

Indigenous Knowledges in Global Contexts: Multiple Readings of Our World, Edited by George Dei, Budd Hall, and Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg, University of Toronto Press, 2000.

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External links

Goldin Rosenberg, Dorothy, Google Book Search entry in the Canadian Who's Who
Women's Healthy Environments Network (WHEN)

Documentary Films

Toxic Trespass, National Film Board of Canada, 2007
Exposure: Environmental Links to Breast Cancer, Women's Healthy Environments Network (WHEN), 1999

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