Cynthia Wolloch

Executive Committee Member-At-Large

Cynthia Wolloch is a native Washingtonian and a graduate of the DC public schools.  She spent many Saturdays during her teenage years in the National Theater’s second balcony attending Theater Guild productions, and hearing the National Symphony (and the National Airport traffic) from the Watergate steps behind the Lincoln Memorial.  A Government brat, she vowed never to live or work in Washington, but things change.  Educated in politics at Cornell and UC Berkeley, she lived in Britain for several years, working at Oxford University, then pursued an academic career briefly before returning to the DC area to work for the National Endowment for the Humanities and, later, for the US Information Agency and the US Department of State.  Her principal responsibilities were directing and evaluating programs in the US Government’s portfolio of international academic exchanges.  Her last position was as Director of the Fulbright Program for the countries of the Western Hemisphere.

As an exchanges professional, Cindy worked at managing relations with binational Boards, organizational planning, program design, evaluation, grants and financial management, negotiation, dispute resolution, and partnership creation.  Some of her most satisfying assignments included devising programs that fostered indigenous leadership skills in six countries, engaged disadvantaged populations throughout the Hemisphere, and provided graduate education for Latin American environmentalists.  After her retirement she created courses to train US Embassy staff to manage the Fulbright Program and developed a program impact study for an environmental NGO.

Cindy’s father was an amateur actor.  She thinks he would be proud of her involvement with Mosaic.