About

Dorcas Cheng-Tozun is an award-winning writer, editor, speaker, and social impact professional. She is the author of Start, Love, Repeat: How to Stay in Love with Your Entrepreneur in a Crazy Start-up World, Let There d.light: How One Social Enterprise Brought Solar Products to 100 Million People, and Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways. She also has two published Bible studies on the topics of Migration and Mental Health. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Christianity Today, Image Journal, and dozens of other publications in the US, Asia, and Africa. She currently serves as Special Projects Lead with The Changemaker Initiative.

 

Dorcas has over twenty years of experience in the nonprofit and social enterprise sectors, working in community development, leadership development, affordable housing, off-grid energy access, contemplative activism, and education. She served as the first director of communications for d.light, one of the world's leading social enterprises, and has consulted for social-benefit companies around the world. A Silicon Valley native, she has also lived in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Nairobi, Kenya. She and her entrepreneur husband have been married for twenty years and have two sons.

 

Dorcas has a BA in communication and an MA in sociology from Stanford University, as well as a professional editing certificate from the University of California, Berkeley.