Ophelia Dahl
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Ophelia Magdalena Dahl (born May 12, 1964) is a social justice and health care advocate.
Dahl is currently the executive director of Partners In Health (PIH), a Boston, Massachusetts based non-profit health care organization dedicated to providing a "preferential option for the poor." She first encountered Paul Farmer, the future co-founder of PIH, as an eighteen year old volunteer in Haiti, and has since dedicated her life to advocating for social justice and healthcare equity.
As a co-founder and key member of the PIH team, Dahl was featured prominently in Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, Tracy Kidder's book describing the work of the organization and the life of Dr. Farmer. In 2005, Partners In Health was awarded the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, the world's largest humanitarian award. In December, 2006, Ophelia Dahl and Paul Farmer are to receive the Union Medal from Union Theological Seminary in New York.
Dahl is the daughter of U.S. actress Patricia Neal and the late British author Roald Dahl. Dahl contributed to the 2003 book The Roald Dahl Treasury, a collection of her father's stories, memoirs, letters and poetry, and is currently writing a memoir of her father. She is a trustee of the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, a registered charity with the mission of "telling Roald Dahl’s life story, to care for his archive and to promote a love of creative writing in everyone."
She is the sister of author Tessa Dahl, screenwriter Lucy Dahl, and aunt of model and author Sophie Dahl.
Dahl graduated from Wellesley College as a Davis Scholar. She was the guest who delivered the 2006 commencement address.
