Cheryl Dorchinsky is the founder and executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition (AIC), a nonpartisan, multi-faith grassroots organization she founded in 2018 with Rabbi Yitz Tendler of Congregation Beth Jacob, 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. 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.