Dorothy "Dottie" Miller Zellner (born 1938) is an American human rights activist, feminist, editor, lecturer, and writer.
Zellner was born in Manhattan and raised by left-wing secular non-Zionist Jewish immigrant parents who could speak Yiddish.
[1] Her parents raised her with an awareness of Black history, racial justice, socialism, the Soviet Union, and Jewish resistance to Nazism.
[6] In 1969, while serving as a staff member of the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF), Zellner wrote a memo critiquing feminist consciousness-raising groups as "therapy" and for being insufficiently "political."
Since 2002, she has traveled to Israel and Palestine on dozens of occasions, volunteered with Physicians for Human Rights, and is an active supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS).