Toxic Trespass
Toxic Trespass Film Production Team

Production Team: Producer

Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg, MES, PhD

Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg PhD, MES, holds a Masters in Environmental Studies (York University) and a PhD (University of Toronto). An education and film consultant, she researches, writes and speaks on environmental health, equality, social, economic and environmental justice, peace and energy issues. She has worked with the National Film Board, school boards, non governmental organizations, health professional and policy groups on these issues. She was principle 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.

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 OISE/UT.

She was director of

  • Les femmes s'en melent: Making a World of Difference: A Directory of Women in Canada Specializing in Global Issues (development, environment, peace and related social justice and economic issues);
  • was the Development and Disarmament Coordinator of the Canadian Council for International Cooperation (1986-88);
  • is affiliated with: WHEN, Prevent Cancer Now; the Toronto Cancer Prevention Coalition Environmental and Occupational working group;
  • Energy -Vision Network; the Saunders-Matthey Cancer Prevention Coalition (formerly the Breast Cancer Prevention Coalition), Voice of Women for Peace, the Cancer Prevention Group of the Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto;
  • the 9th International Women and Health Meeting, the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, Physicians for Global Survival, National Network on Environments and Women's Health, Centre of Excellence (NNEWH), York University, Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education.
  • She is Co editor (with George Dei and Budd Hall) of Indigenous Knowleges: Multiple Readings of Our World, University of Toronto Press (2000).

Her awards include:

  • 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 Woman of the Year Award, American Biographical Institute

She is mother of Pamela Rosenberg Vennin and Matthew Jay Rosenberg and grandmother of Rosie Annabelle, Sydney Helena and Magali Elianne Vennin.