Dorothea Jacobson-Wenzel, also known as Dori Jacobson, was born in Oak Park, IL and grew up in a German/Swedish, Lutheran extended family in Chicago. In the early 1970s she joined the Chicago Chapter of NOW to work for reproductive rights and equal pay for equal work. During this time she was also an artist doing printmaking and photographic etching. While at her first National NOW convention in 1973 she observed male newsmen and photographers laughing and joking as they covered women’s demonstrations, so she decided to begin photographing women’s movement events from her own feminist perspective. For the rest of her life, she has traveled the nation, camera in hand, documenting individual women, demonstrations and other events central to the women’s movement. In addition, since the mid 1960s, she has been an advocate of civil rights and a champion of cultural diversity in educational institutions. For thirty years she was an educator at the State Department of Education, Malcolm X College and Truman College. In addition to other advanced degrees she holds a Psy.D from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology (1996). Her women’s movement photographs are currently included in the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College, Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, University of Illinois at Chicago, and other repositories.