Dorothy Mains Prince is the founder of "Sojourns", an enterprise designed to bring the lives of outstanding African American women to students and community organizations across the country. Prince holds BA and MA degrees from Emerson College in Boston and a MA from Teachers College, Columbia University in New York. For more than twenty years she has been teaching, directing, and performing throughout the New England area. Prince began developing historical monologues in 1995, when she appeared as Zora Neale Hurston in Tulsa Oklahoma. Since then, she has performed as Ida B. Wells Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Phillis Wheatley, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Frances E.W. Harper.

After each performance, the most frequently asked question is, "How and/or why do you pick the women that you choose to perform?" The answer is always the same: "They inspire me. And if I am inspired, I know that others will be as well. I want to inspire our children to greatness."

Prince is a member of the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) Roster for performing/Touring and Education Program.

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