Summary: An accomplished social entrepreneur with expertise in health care, labor issues and public policy, Cheryl Dorsey was named president of Echoing Green in May 2002. She is the first Echoing Green Fellow to lead this global nonprofit, which has awarded more than $28 million in start-up capital to over 450 social entrepreneurs worldwide since 1987. In this conversation with Sherra Babcock, Chautauqua Institution’s director of Education, Dorsey discusses the foundations underlying the highly competitive Echoing Green Fellowship Award decisions stating “It takes a village to raise a social entrepreneur...there is something very soothing about being amongst a community of like-minded change agents who don’t think you’re crazy.” She elaborates on why Echoing Green is so important as an institution and explains why it is so important to power the boundless energy and innovative thinking of our “young” people expanding on how “it has nothing to do with age.”
