A writer and editor who worked on juvenile justice policy, criminal justice reform, health and drug policy, and higher education. Among other professional accomplishments, Dinsmore conducted interviews of victims in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, for the federal report from the Office for Victims of Crime; and wrote a monograph Death and Dying: An Examination of Legislative Policy (1977). Dinsmore was also a poet and visual artist, and a Quaker active in the Friends Meeting of Washington. Her poems appeared in the anthology Joys of the Table, and on the blog But Does It Rhyme, among other places.