Cindy Santos joins the Aspen Institute with over 10 years of experience working on a national level. Her career has focused on increasing the organizational capacity of child and family serving systems to develop effective strategies and implement scaleable and sustainable solutions. Cindy served as a State/Territory Liaison with the Center for States, working closely with the Children’s Bureau and child welfare agencies in NY, NJ, PR, and USVI. In her most recent role, Cindy served as a National Partnerships Advisor at Casey Family Programs. Her work focused on improving cross-systems and multi-disciplinary collaboration between Child Welfare Agencies and Dependency Courts, achieving equitable services and supports for kinship caregivers and narrative change.
From the Blog
- July 18, 2024
Inside Philanthropy: The Power of Place-Based Partnerships in the Fight for Equity
In a new guest column for Inside Philanthropy, Jennifer Splansky Juster, Monique Miles, and Cindy Santos issue a call to action for philanthropy to support equ…
- October 7, 2022
Being Proximate to Achieve Transformative Social Change
A word that has been resonant for me lately is proximity.Bryan Stevenson talks about proximity as getting close to the people and places that experience exclus…