Dorothy Quincy Thomas (born 1960) is an American human rights activist.

[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.