Cindy Waitt serves as Director of the Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention, a board member of the Waitt Foundation,
and the Kind World Foundation. Prior to her 20 year career in philanthropy, she worked with at risk youth and their families for 10 years.
Cindy serves on the National Advisory Board for the Future’s without Violence International Center to End Violence, has been a member of the Clinton Global Initiative since 2006, and served as a judge in the Ashoka Changemaker’s 2007 competition “No Private Matter”.
Under her leadership, WIVP has been a lead supporter of the strategy of engaging men and boys in violence prevention
through her support of Futures without Violence’s awareness and on ground campaign, “Coaching Boys into Men”
and Jackson Katz’s “Mentors in Violence Prevention” . She sponsored a five year violence prevention in- school and
community research project called the “Sioux City Project” and co sponsored the first workplace bullying Zogby poll in
America in 2007.
Cindy is the Executive Producer of “A New Kind of Strength”, a web based short film on the men’s movement to end
domestic violence, that is being used in over 30 states and multiple countries. She is also the Executive Producer, with
Kit Gruelle and Gloria Steinem, of the upcoming documentary “Private Violence, the anti-battering movement in America”
and is the Executive Producer of the award winning documentary “Bully”.
Cindy has been directly involved in three national Ad Council Campaigns from 2002-2006 and is a co sponsor, with AOL,
Facebook, and Marlo Thomas’s “Free to Be” foundation, of a new 2012 Ad Council anti bullying national campaign.
She recently received the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from Futures without Violence for her leadership in engaging
men and boys in violence prevention.
When not involved in philanthropic work, Cindy writes and paints. She is the daughter of the late Norman
Waitt and Joan Waitt, wife to Eric Blumberg, mother to Ben, and sister of Marcia, Norm, and Ted.
