
Dorka is the Chief Muse of KEEHN ON ART. She has recently completed ECO AMAZONS: 20 Women Who Are Transforming the World, the first illustrated book on American women environmentalists with photographs by Colin Finlay, published May 2011 by powerHouse Books. In 2008, she realized with Brian Goggin, The Language of the Birds, a solar powered permanent sculpture commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission, voted one of the best public artworks in the U.S. by Americans for the Arts. From 2006 to 2009, Dorka hosted and produced the arts and culture radio (on Green 960) and internet program, KEEHN ON ART. Dorka has produced several films for television including the two-time Emmy award-winning documentary, OF CIVIL WRONGS AND RIGHTS: The Fred Korematsu Story (POV 2001). In January 2011, she was appointed to the San Francisco Arts Commission. Dorka has also been a leader in the women’s movement for the last two decades. She is a founder of EMERGE AMERICA (emergeamerica.org), the premier training program for Democratic women who plan to run for political office with offices in nine states, and a founding board member of IGNITE (igniteca.org), an organization that provides political and civic education to high school and college young women. From 1999 to 2010, Dorka served as a Commissioner on the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women.