Cindy Pulley
Chair, Development Committee

Cindy Pulley is a consultant, proposal writer and committed educator. She has worked in various capacities in communication. She is currently a Project Development Specialist for the Center for Character and Citizenship at the University of Missouri St Louis. She is part of the Youth Empowerment in Action Team, an organization designed to develop the voices of young people who wish to engage in solving community problems through research, advocacy and media. Before joining UMSL as a staff member, she was on the faculty at Maryville University in St. Louis, where she taught digital media and desktop publishing courses and a number of Communication courses. As adviser to the student media, she started the university's first printed newspaper
in 29 years, and she expanded the online version. She was named "2007 Adviser of the Year" by the Missouri College Media Association, and in September of 2008, was named to the 2008 Roger Carlson Hall of Fame for Media Advisers at the Missouri Press Association Best Newspapers Conference
in Columbia, Missouri.

Cindy has been the lead writer on numerous awarded grants, totaling nearly $14 million, for non profits, schools, universities and health care institutions. Most of them were related to technology and virtual health care and distance learning. In her previous positions she has been a successful journalism and English teacher, has held positions in public relations, and has worked as a journalist for the Salt Lake Tribune and other Utah newspapers.