Cheryl is the Director of the Innovation and Knowledge Management practice for Ashoka. As a journalist, entrepreneur and thought leader, she has spent nearly ten years working at the intersection of business and social innovation. She founded and led Fast Company’s Social Capitalist awards, a competition to surface top social entrepreneurs. As the project manager for four years, she helped design an evaluation methodology and sift through hundreds of non-profit applications each year to find top performers with compelling models for change. She has written extensively on capital markets for non-profits, sustainability, and social entrepreneurs in the U.S. and abroad. As a consultant and advisor, she has served leading organizations in the space of hybrid business/social solutions, including the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, The Skoll Foundation and the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University.