Dr. Phyllis Chesler
Professor
Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D, is an Emerita Professor of Psychology at City University of New York. She is a best-selling author, a legendary feminist leader, and a retired psychotherapist. She has lectured and organized political, legal, religious, and human rights campaigns in the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel, Central Asia, and the Far East.
Dr. Chesler is a co-founder of the Association for Women in Psychology (1969) and the National Women’s Health Network (1975) and a founding member of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, the Academic Freedom Alliance, and the anti-Islamist Clarity Coalition. She was a Senior Fellow at the Investigative Project on Terrorism; a Writing Fellow at The Middle East Forum, and a Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy (ISGAP).
Dr. Chesler is also a founding member of the Original Women of the Wall. She has been profiled in encyclopedias such as Feminists Who Have Changed America, Encyclopedia Judaica, Jewish Women in America, and at the Veteran Feminists of America’s website.
