Her bachelors and one masters degree is from CUNY (City College and Brooklyn College, respectively); her library masters degree is from Pratt Institute. For the past six and half years, as her college's media and interlibrary loan librarian, Dorothea also teaches information literacy, and is the bibliographer for science, sociology, and political science. Her current project, which is funded by a CUNY grant, is a webliography of moving image websites for undergraduate education.