Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg is a Canadian educator and film consultant. She researches, writes and speaks on

environmental health Environmental health is the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health. In order to effectively control factors that may affect health, the requirements that must be met in ...

, equality,

social justice Social justice is justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society. In Western and Asian cultures, the concept of social justice has often referred to the process of ensuring that individuals fu ...

, economic justice,

environmental justice Environmental justice is a social movement to address the unfair exposure of poor and marginalized communities to harms from hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses.Schlosberg, David. (2007) ''Defining Environmental Justic ...

peace Peace is a concept of societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict (such as war) and freedom from fear of violence between individuals or groups. ...

, and

energy In physics, energy (from Ancient Greek: ἐνέργεια, ''enérgeia'', “activity”) is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of work and in the form of heat a ...

issues.

Biography

Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg PhD, MES, holds a master's in environmental studies (

York University York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...

) and a PhD (

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

). She has worked with the

National Film Board of Canada The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; french: Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary f ...

, 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 training trainers workshops using these materials as educational tools. She has 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 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,

and related

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.

References

External links

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

Documentary Films

Toxic Trespass
National Film Board of Canada, 2007
Exposure: Environmental Links to Breast Cancer
Women's Healthy Environments Network (WHEN), 1999 {{DEFAULTSORT:Rosenberg, Dorothy Goldin Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Canadian environmentalists Canadian women activists Canadian women environmentalists York University alumni University of Toronto alumni