Cindy Waitt
Executive Director, Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention

Cindy Waitt serves as executive director of the Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention and is a board member of the Waitt Foundation, serving as director for 15 years. She previously worked with at-risk youth and their families at the Boys and Girls Home, and with Family Services of Sioux City for eight years as a casework director for residential treatment. Cindy serves on the National Advisory Board for the Family Violence Prevention Fund’s International Center to End Violence, has been a member of the Clinton Global Initiative since 2005, and served as a judge in the Ashoka Changemaker’s 2007 competition “No Private Matter.” Cindy believes that we are ready for a world that solves crisis and conflict in a non-violent way.