Cheryl Dorsey is president of Echoing Green, a global nonprofit organization that has awarded more than $28 million in start-up capital to more than 450 social entrepreneurs worldwide since 1987.
Dorsey, who was named president in 2002, has been involved with Echoing Green since 1992, when she received an Echoing Green Fellowship as a pediatrician trainee at Harvard Medical School and launched the Family Van, a community-based mobile health unit that provides basic health care and outreach services to at-risk residents of inner-city Boston neighborhoods.
Dorsey is an accomplished social entrepreneur with expertise in health care, labor issues and public policy. As a White House Fellow from 1997 to1998 she served as special assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Labor, advising the Clinton Administration on health care and other issues. She was later named special assistant to the director of the Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Labor Department, where she helped develop family-friendly workplace policies and spearheaded the labor secretary’s pay equity initiative.
Dorsey was most recently appointed vice chairman of the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships, and was named one of America’s Top Leaders by U.S. World News and World Report.
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