Dorchen Leidholdt

Dorchen Leidholdt
Nationality	American
Education	Law degree
Alma mater	University of Virginia New York University School of Law
Occupation	Author activist
Years active	Mid-1970s to present
Known for	Feminism, anti-pornography activism
Website	Coalition Against Trafficking in Women

Dorchen A. Leidholdt is an activist and leader in the feminist movement against violence against women. Since the mid-1970s, she has counseled and advocated for rape victims, organized against "the media’s promotion of violence against women", served on the legal team for the plaintiff in a precedent-setting sexual harassment case, founded an international nongovernmental organization fighting trafficking in women and children, directed the nation’s largest legal services program for victims of domestic violence, advocated for the enactment and implementation of laws that further the rights of abused women, and represented hundreds of women victimized by intimate partner violence, human trafficking, sexual assault, the threat of honor killing, female genital mutilation, forced and child marriage, and the internet bride trade.

Leidholdt has lectured internationally on issues of violence against women and has published articles, book chapters, and two anthologies.

Leidholdt hold a masters degree from the University of Virginia and a law degree from New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Snow scholar.

From 1975 to 1977, Leidholdt counseled rape victims as a graduate student at the University of Virginia and, after moving to New York City in 1978, became an activist with the Women’s Anti-Rape Coalition, the educational arm of New York Women Against Rape. From 1978 through 1980 she was a leader of the New York City Chapter of Women Against Violence Against Women.

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