Roc-A-Natural Body By R.A.N

Dorcas is the creator of Roc-A-Natural Body By R.A.N B-Butter and B-Oil, 100% natural moisturizers from head to toe. These natural products are for men and women and are known to heal the skin from excessive dryness and are scented with essential oil blends and are available online at www.rocanatural.com/natural-moisturizers and Urban Beauty Supply Store.

To further her Roc-A-Natural mission, in 2014, Dorcas founded the Annual Roc-A-Natural Hair, Health and Beauty Transform Your Life Expo, an event that provided a powerful platform for growth for natural hair stylists, educators, health vendors, and consumers from across the Tri-state area. Hosted at Harlem’s New York Public Library Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 2014 and 2015, the Expo attracted hundreds of attendees and participants each year. Some noted participants included, Dr. Jeff Gardere, America’s Psychologist, Curls, L’Oreal, Miss Jessies, Nature’s Bounty, ORS formerly Organic Root Stimulator, Raw Revolution and Vera Moore Cosmetics and Skincare

Subsequent Expos were held at The Watson Hotel on West 57th Street and the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College in Manhattan. The Expo is currently on hiatus, but Dorcas continues to seek partnerships and sponsorship opportunities with nonprofit organizations, to use the Expo platform to transform lives to a healthy and natural state of mind.

Professionally, Dorcas has worked for the National Park Service for over 10 years and is passionate about connecting underserved communities to the 23 beautiful national parks in the New York and New Jersey harbor area. She believes parks are great places for people to experience their America and mental healing.

As an avid Staten Island community and cultural advocate, Dorcas has partnered with the JCC Beacon Program at I.S. 49 and other local organizations to educate and empower, through annual Black History and Kwanzaa programs which were inaugurated in 2018 as well as Taking It To The Streets: Free Friday Night Films which were inaugurated in 2020 and are growing from strength to strength.