Alice Rothchild is a physician, author, and filmmaker who serves as mentor coordinator for We Are Not Numbers. She writes and lectures widely, blogs regularly, and is the author of a number of books including Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience, (translated into Hebrew and German); Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine; the middle grade novel, Old Enough to Know, winner of an Arab American Book Award; and the young adult novel, Finding Melody Sullivan, winner of a Moonbeam and a Skipping Stones awards, also available as an audiobook. 

Her memoir, Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician, was named a must-read for the month of November by ms. magazine.  She directed a documentary film, “Voices Across the Divide.” 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, and was named a Peace Pioneer by the American Jewish Peace Archive. 

Alice is a member of Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council, on the board of the Gaza Mental Health Foundation and Americans for Middle East Understanding. She was last in the West Bank and Gaza in August 2023. Alice can be followed at her websites, alicerothchildbooks.com and alicerothchild.com.

Current as of June 2026