Cheryl Dorchinsky

Cheryl Dorchinsky is a Senior Advisor for Community Advocacy at Mitzpe Institute. She is the founding executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition, a nonpartisan, multi-faith grassroots advocacy organization she built from the ground in 2018 after two decades in corporate human resources and talent management.

Under Dorchinsky's leadership, AIC has organized more than 200 educational programs, rallies, and international initiatives across the American Southeast and beyond. Her signature projects include a multi-faith Zionist mission to Israel, a virtual Israel tour series during the pandemic that reached audiences globally, and a wartime solidarity mission in January 2024 that delivered a community-painted mural to the fortified underground emergency hospital at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa. She organized Atlanta's major pro-Israel solidarity rallies during the 2021 conflict alongside then-Consul General Anat Sultan-Dadon and led AIC's rapid community response after October 7.

Dorchinsky received the Zionist Legacy Award from the World Zionist Organization in 2023. She writes for JNS and the Atlanta Jewish Times and speaks nationally on grassroots coalition-building, antizionism in schools and progressive spaces, and community-level advocacy strategy.

At Mitzpe, Dorchinsky advises on diaspora community mobilization and advocacy infrastructure — the organizational ground game that translates institutional analysis into community-level action.

Dorchinsky also leads Mitzpe's operational advisory practice for small Jewish nonprofits. Executive directors and board chairs at peer organizations have been calling her for years — about a difficult board member, a program launch that needs to come together under pressure, a statement that has to go out tonight, a community response to a security incident. The practice formalizes that work under Mitzpe's imprint, drawing directly on the operational experience of founding and running AIC through two Gaza wars, a pandemic, and the aftermath of October 7.