Dee Mosbacher Biography
Dee Mosbacher is an American filmmaker, lesbian feminist activist, and psychiatrist in private practice. Woman Vision, a non-profit organization, was created by her in 1993.
Dee Mosbacher Age
Dee was born on 13 January 1949, in Houston, Texas, United States of America. She is 74 years old as of January 2023.
Dee Mosbacher Education
Mosbacher graduated from Pitzer College in Claremont, California, with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, a doctorate in social psychology from Union Graduate School, and a medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine.
Dee Mosbacher Family- Parents
Mosbacher was born in Houston, Texas, to the late Jane Pennybacker Mosbacher and Robert Mosbacher (1927-2010), who served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce under George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1992; she has two sisters and a brother.
Dee Mosbacher Husband
Mosbacher is married to her husband Nanette Gartrell, a researcher, psychiatrist, and author since 2005.
Dee Mosbacher Career
Mosbacher worked as a medical intern at Cambridge Hospital through Harvard Medical School from 1983 to 1984, and then as a psychiatry resident there from 1984 to 1987. As a student at Baylor College and a resident at Harvard Medical School, she became a women’s health campaigner and began directing documentary films. Her films focused on discrimination against lesbian and homosexual physicians and patients, and she produced numerous essays for the academic and medical communities regarding gay and lesbian patients.Dee Mosbacher started the non-profit production business Woman Vision in 1992 to oppose the Republican Party’s media assault on LGBT issues, which was the focus of the 1992 Republican National Convention.
Mosbacher had made or produced nine documentary films through Woman Vision as of 2009, all of which dealt with LGBTQ or women’s rights concerns. Straight From the Heart, for which she received an Academy Award nomination in 1994, was directed and produced by her. Straight From the Heart, a documentary about heterosexual parents and their adult lesbian and homosexual offspring was co-directed and co-produced by Mosbacher and Frances Reid in 1995. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Documentary (Short Subject). Mosbacher co-directed and co-produced Training Rules, an hour-long documentary film on Penn State University women’s basketball coach Rene Portland, with Fawn Yacker in 2009.
Mosbacher served on the Pitzer College Board of Trustees from 1994 until 2002. In 2011, she founded the Mosbacher Fund for Media Studies at Pitzer College, as well as the Mosbacher/Gartrell Centre for Media Experimentation and Activism. Woman Vision developed The Last Closet in 2012, a web-based campaign and film production aimed at eradicating homophobia in men’s professional sports.
Dee Mosbacher’s Net Worth
Dee has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.