Cynthia Wolloch

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.