Who is Dorothy?

I will be making references to Dorothy on my blog. And given that a number of people reading this include my family [I even have an Aunty Dorothy, which made the EWB-Dorothy concept a little hard for me to get used to] who don’t know this terminology so I will briefly explain her.

Dorothy is my boss. She is the boss of everyone in EWB, including the Co-CEOs Parker Mitchell and George Roter. At the end of the day, all the work we do is for her. She is an archetype. I don’t remember quite how the concept developed and got the name Dorothy, but that’s how we know her. She is the millions of people out there living in extreme poverty. She is our client. Whether she is a man or women, old or young, etc. All those faces you see on World Vision advertisements. Each one of those faces is Dorothy.

On my Myers Briggs personality type test I am an “I” [intuitive] and not an “S” [sensing] which means I am much more of a concept person than a concrete examples person. So my explanation of Dorothy is lack-lustre because for me Dorothy is an abstract concept I see manifest into a million forms everyday while I am over here. Perhaps someone from the chapter who is an “S” can leave a comment on this post explaining it better.