Irene Tinker (born March 8, 1927, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin),[1] is professor emerita in the Departments of City and Regional Planning & Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, teaching from 1989 to 1998.

from Radcliffe College in political philosophy and comparative government and her PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science in comparative government and development.

In 1953, she and her new husband drove back to London from Mombasa, Kenya, in an Austin A40.

President Jimmy Carter appointed her assistant director of action in 1977.

[12] In 1977, Tinker became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP).