Cheryl Dorsey

Cheryl L. Dorsey is a pioneer in the social entrepreneurship movement, and the president of Echoing Green, a global organization seeding and unleashing next-generation talent to solve the world’s biggest problems.

Prior to leading this social impact organization, Cheryl was a social entrepreneur herself and received an Echoing Green Fellowship in 1992 to help launch The Family Van, a community-based mobile health unit in Boston. She became the first Echoing Green fellow to head the social venture fund in 2002.

An accomplished leader and entrepreneur, she has served in two presidential administrations as a White House fellow and special assistant to the US Secretary of Labor (1997-98); special assistant to the director of the Women's Bureau of the US Labor Department (1998-99); and vice chair for the President's Commission on White House Fellowships (2009-16). Cheryl serves on several boards including the SEED Foundation, The Bridgespan Group, and, previously, the Harvard Board of Overseers. She has a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and her master’s in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School, and received her bachelor’s degree in History and Science magna cum laude with highest honors from Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges.