Ellen Dorsey is the Executive Director of the Wallace Global Fund, an internationally recognized philanthropic organization dedicated to human rights, the environment, and an engaged citizenry. Dorsey was previously a Senior Program Officer at the Heinz Endowments, Pittsburgh, where her work focused on environmental health issues. 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. Before coming to Chatham, Dorsey served as the director of the Just Earth! Program on human rights and the environment at Amnesty International USA, developing 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. Dorsey has worked in the Africa region, specifically on African environmental and human rights policy issues. She was a Fulbright Scholar in South Africa in 1992-1993, at the University of the Witwatersrand, conducting research on women and human rights in a post-Apartheid South Africa. She has served on the faculty of Georgia State University, American University, and Carnegie Mellon University. She has also 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. With Paul Nelson, Dorsey has a new book examining global advocacy on economic and social rights, entitled The New Rights Advocacy: Changing Strategies of Development and Human Rights NGOs, Georgetown University Press, March 2008.