About me
Cyndi Stivers leads the TED Curation team. She began her career in hot-type newspapers, and has since shepherded media startups and reinvigorated venerable brands on nearly every platform, including magazines, television, radio, and online.
She led the establishment of Time Out in North America (1995-2005), and taught the first digital-magazine workshop at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. While on the board of the Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) and the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME), she spearheaded adoption of the industry’s first internet-publishing guidelines.
She graduated from Barnard College (while working full-time as a reporter at the New York Post) and served 14 years as a Barnard Trustee, much of it leading the committee on governance. She is on the board of KAVI (Kings Against Violence Initiative) and also advises Report for America and the Sustainable Media Center.
