CYNTHIA CAMPOY BROPHY
Cynthia Campoy Brophy has worked in the nonprofit sector for many years,
with a focus on youth empowerment and the arts. She began her career at The Museum of Contemporary Art and left to launch a nonprofit arts education organization, artworxLA. From founding the organization, to expanding it and eventually passing it on to the next generation of leadership, she worked to link existing resources to young people who lacked access to social, educational, and creative opportunities. She participated in youth empowerment efforts locally and nationally, serving on the national Creative Youth Development advisory board, the National Guild for Community Arts Education, Arts for LA (Board Chair), and was a State appointee on the California Cultural and Historical Endowment Board. She has served on panels and as speaker for organizations including the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the National Dropout Prevention Conference, the National Guild. Professional learning opportunities include Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Scaling for Impact program and Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders/Arts, and she is a Durfee Foundation sabbatical recipient. Current projects include the creation and facilitation of a Resourcing Lab, a curriculum providing skills-building and wellness practices to frontline workers post-Covid; the conceptualization and design of a Centering Center, a multi-sensory space for respite and rejuvenation; the launch of Create Protest, an online marketplace for activist merchandise designed by artists. She trained in Mediation at Loyola Law School’s Center for Conflict Resolution where she currently works as a Mediator, and was recently an Artist-in-Residence teaching Conflict Resolution at the Indian Institute of Technology, Ghandinagar. Cynthia looks forward to joining the TSP team to work to bring the essential human resource of water to the Samburu communities.