Cynthia "Cindi" Love is an educator, advocate, and activist who currently serves as the Executive Director of ACPA—College Student Educators International in Washington, DC. She has previously served as the Executive Director of Soulforce and Metropolitan Community Churches worldwide. She received her doctorate from Texas Tech University and has held several leadership positions in education and non-profits. She is recognized for her work advocating for LGBT rights and ending discrimination.

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Cynthia H. “Cindi” Love, Ed.D.
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Occoquan, VA 22125
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Cynthia "Cindi" Love is an educator, advocate, executive, entrepreneur,
author and activist. She currently serves as the Executive Director of ACPA
—College Student Educators International in Washington, DC. Prior to this
appointment in July 2014, she served as the Executive Director of Soulforce
as well as Metropolitan Community Churches worldwide from 2005-2014.
She is a member of the Working Advisory Group to the US Secretary of
State on Religion & Foreign Policy. She has also served as plenary member
of the United Nations UUO Compass Coalition for LGBT Human Rights & as
a thematic country specialist for LGBT human rights with Amnesty
International. She currently serves as one of the 92 Content Experts for the
Diversity Collegium Global Diversity & Inclusion Benchmarks project. She is
a consultant in strategic planning and disintermediation.
President Obama has invited her to the White House on two separate
occasions in recognition of her work to end discrimination against LGBT
people. She was also a guest of President George Bush, Sr. to play golf with
the President & the Secret Service to raise money for the First Tee
Foundation. Her work was recognized by late Senator Edward Kennedy as
the leader of a first responder organization to Hurricane Katrina victims.
She is a former senior executive of the New York Stock Exchange listed
TORO Company (NYE:TTC) and was named one of North America’s Top 50
Entrepreneurs by INC Magazine, Young Entrepreneur’s Organization and
MIT. She was in the inaugural class of MIT’s Birthing of Giants program and
received the David Boehnett Fellowship to the Harvard Kennedy School
Executive Education Program for State & Local Officials.
She has a doctorate in educational administration from Texas Tech

2. University and was a full fellowship recipient for her Masters in Education
from Louisiana Tech and the Veteran’s Administration.
She applied her educational training to using early adoption technology in
classroom and rehabilitation facilities and to forming community-school
partnerships; her efforts were recognized by the Texas legislature and by
the late Governor Ann Richards.
She served as the Executive Dean of Brookhaven College in Dallas, Texas,
chairperson for School Vision of Texas, Apple’s largest sales agency in the
United States from 1993-1995. She was also CEO of Friendly Robotics, a
high tech firm in Tel Aviv, served as a Visiting Investigator for NASA and is a
long-time director of the West Texas Rehabilitation Center's advocacy
program.
She is a Huffington Post blogger in the areas of education, religion and
LGBT lives and an ordained minister and author of Would Jesus
Discriminate? The 21st Century Question about a global marketing
campaign to prompt churches to consider the ways that religious attitudes
against homosexuality may contribute to discrimination against gays and
lesbians. In March 2014, she was asked to co-lead the closing benediction
at the DOMA rally on the steps of the Supreme Court.
Her favorite quote is by Ralph Waldo Emerson is “Every Wall is a Door.”
Her favorite people on earth are her spouse/partner of 35 years, Sue
Jennings and their children, Joshua and Hannah.
Her favorite places are any beaches at sunrise or sunset and the face of
Blanca Peak in Colorado, on her deck on the Occoquan River or at on the
dock at Fort Phantom Lake in Abilene Texas. When she isn’t working, you
can find her with her favorite people in one of those places.