Education
Brooklyn College; The New School.
Brooklyn College; The New School.
Born in The Bronx, Dinnerstein went to Brooklyn College for her undergraduate degree and earned the Doctor of Philosophy in psychology from the New School for Social Research in 1951. A resident of Leonia, New Jersey, she taught at Rutgers–Newark in New Jersey from 1959 until three years before her death in Englewood, New Jersey after an automobile accident. She was survived by a daughter and two step-daughters.