CSE January Symposium: Cheryl Dorsey, President of Echoing Green

Cheryl Dorsey, President of Echoing Green, will deliver the second keynote address at the CSE’s fifth annual symposium, “On Leading a Life of Meaning and Purpose.” Please visit mcse.middlebury.edu/event for a full schedule of events.

“Unleashing Next Generation Talent in Social Innovation”

Cheryl Dorsey is a pioneer in the social entrepreneurship movement and president of Echoing Green, a global organization supporting next-generation talent to solve the world’s biggest problems. As an Echoing Green Fellow herself in 1992 she helped 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.

She has served in two presidential administrations as a White House Fellow and Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Labor (1997-98); Special Assistant to the Director of the Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Labor Department (1998-99); and Vice Chair for the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships (2009-present). She serves on several boards and has a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and a master’s in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School. She received her bachelor’s degree in history and science magna cum laude with highest honors from Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges.

Cheryl has received numerous awards, including the Pfizer Roerig History of Medicine Award, the Robert Kennedy Distinguished Public Service Award, and the Manual C. Carballo Memorial Prize. She was also featured as one of “America’s Best Leaders” by US News & World Report and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School in 2009, and as one of The Nonprofit Times’ “Power and Influence Top 50” in 2010 and 2011.

Presentation of Vision Award
Baishakhi Taylor, Dean of Students; and Winson Law ’16, CSE Fellow