Since 2009 Cynthia has been, and is currently, a Contributing Editor/feature writer for DOCUMENTARY MAGAZINE, a quarterly publication of the International Documentary Association. From 1993 to January 2012 she was the Executive Director and President of Documentary Educational Resources, (DER) a Watertown Massachusetts based non-profit film and video production/distribution company founded in 1968. She served on the Board of Directors of the Society for Visual Anthropology and the Advisory Boards for The Margaret Mead International Film and Video Festival, NYC; Women In Film and Video New England Chapter, The Camden International Film Festival, The Do It Your Damn Self Film Festival and AmericanInsight, Inc. She acted as fiscal sponsor/grant manager for over 100 documentary projects during her tenure at DER. She taught courses in Funding and Selling the Documentary at the Maine International Film and Television Workshops and seminars in the Business of Filmmaking, from funding to distribution via Community TV stations across the country. She has been a guest lecturer at the Boston University Program in Digital Media Arts; Suffolk University, Boston; Emerson College, Harvard University & Lesley University, Cambridge; Temple University, Philadelphia, CCV, University of Vermont and the University of New Mexico, Center for Documentary Film as well as internationally via INTERDOC headquartered in Scotland. She programmed film retrospectives at the Anthology Film Archives in NYC. She has curated and presented programs at film festivals in Boston, New York, Toronto, Copenhagen, Mexico City, Taipei, Tartu, and Paris, France. She evaluated book manuscripts on documentary film for Focal Press, writes for ART NEW ENGLAND, and is currently an advisor to several documentary works-in-progress. She has also written an unpublished memoir and has turned most of her energies to furthering her development as a creative writer.

Prior to her involvement with film she lived in Germany, working as a corporate Art Consultant and in the 1980’s was Dean of Admissions at the Art Institute of Boston. Her first career was as an artist and instructor in drawing and painting at Boston University and the Art Institute of Boston. She has a BFA and MFA degree from Boston University.

SIX GENERATIONS OF FIRST BORN WOMEN (unpublished)
ALE TALES - stories about drinking, public reading at Magic Hat event, Burlington Vermont 1/16/14
SEASONS OF OUR LIVES, award winning anthology collection being published as an ebook 2/1/14
BEST OF BURLINGTON WRITERS WORKSHOP, scheduled publication 4/1/14

As a new transplant to Burlington Vermont, I've just discovered Renegade Writers and plan to join.