Dorothy Virginia Granada (born December 8, 1930) is an American nurse, humanitarian, and peace and social justice activist who resides in Nicaragua.

She founded and expanded a women's clinic in Mulukukú, Nicaragua in 1990 to provide healthcare services to more than twenty thousand poor and underserved residents of the region within a decade of the facility's opening.

[1][2][3][4] Describing her work for a newspaper interview in 2001, she said:[5] "Mothers struggle to keep their children alive and to find ways to never go back to that violence.... My strength over the last year has been fueled by the faith of a people who toil for a better life.

"Born in Los Angeles, California in the United States on December 8, 1930, Dorothy Granada grew up in poverty, as did her mother, who was raised during the Great Depression.

He was a psychology professor and a peace activist, who was volunteering in his own spare time to urge the U.S. government to end the manufacture and testing of nuclear weapons.

[8] Sometime during the early 1980s, Granada and Gray[9] relocated to Santa Cruz, California, where they became active members of the community of protestors who were advocating for social justice and against the continued production and testing of nuclear weapons.

In 1983, she and her husband took part in a forty-day "international fast for life" in Oakland, California, during which time she reportedly drank only water in order to protest the world's continued production and testing of nuclear weapons.

[24][25] In 1990, Granada and her husband relocated from California to Mulukukú, Nicaragua, where she had been invited by the Maria Luisa Ortiz Women's Cooperative to assess the community's existing healthcare services and develop new programs to improve the health of the poor and underserved individuals residing there.

[27][28][29] In 2000, while caring for a village population that had grown to roughly 5,000 men, women and children, Granada was accused by the Nicaraguan government of performing abortions, which were illegal in Nicaragua at that time, and of "treating leftist rebels."

Congressman Sam Carr (Democrat, Carmel, California), signed a letter affirming their support of her humanitarian efforts and urging the Nicaraguan government to stop deportation proceedings against her.

She moved back to the United States, hoping that she would be able to return to her adopted home if Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Aleman was voted out of office during the November 2001 elections.