Cyndi Stivers

Director of Curation, TED

Cyndi Stivers manages the Curation team at TED, a global event and digital content producer. 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.

Stivers led the establishment of Time Out in North America (1995-2005), and taught the first digital-magazine workshop at Columbia University’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, the Sustainable Media Center, and others who are determined to help journalism thrive, despite the headwinds.