Alice Rothchild (1948– ) is a physician, author, and filmmaker who loves storytelling that pushes boundaries and engages us in unexpected conversations. Alice graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1970 with a BA in psychology and obtained her medical degree from Boston University in 1974. She co-founded Urban Woman and Child Health, Inc. in Jamaica Plain, MA in 1979. She practiced ob-gyn for almost 40 years and served as Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School. She received Boston Magazine’s Best of Boston’s Women Doctors Award, was named in Feminists Who Changed America 1963–1975, had her portrait painted for Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell the Truth project, and was named a Peace Pioneer by the American Jewish Peace Archive. 

Her books include Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience (Pluto Press, 2007), On the Brink: Israel and Palestine on the Eve of the 2014 Gaza Invasion (Just World Books, 2014), Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine (Just World Books, 2017), and Finding Melody Sullivan (Cune Press, 2023). Her documentary film Voices Across the Divide (2013) co-won the 201 Audience Award at the Boston Palestine Film Festival. Her most recent book is Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician (New Village Press, 2024). 

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