Peace Talks Podcast

Dorcas Cheng-Tozun

about

Dorcas Cheng-Tozun is an award-winning writer, editor, speaker, and communications consultant. She is the author of Start, Love, Repeat: How to Stay in Love with Your Entrepreneur in a Crazy Start-up WorldLet 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. 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 a high school instructor of social innovation at Valley Christian Schools.
 
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. A Silicon Valley native, she has lived in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Nairobi, Kenya. She and her husband have been married for nineteen years and have two young sons.

Quotable

“How do I engage in this work that is so meaningful—that gives my life purpose, that I want to do—and yet, at the same time, it is something that takes so much out of me? I don’t know how to reconcile those two things.”