Dorothy Quincy Thomas (born 1960) is an American human rights activist.[1] She was a 1998 MacArthur Fellow, and a 1995 Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
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She graduated from Georgetown University with an M.A. in 1984.[2] She is senior program advisor to the US Human Rights Fund. She was founding director of the Human Rights Watch, Women's Rights Division, from 1990 to 1998. She was a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, from 2007 to 2008.[3] She is a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She is a director of the Ms. Foundation for Women.[4]