Cindy Lou first joined The Opportunity Agenda as a Health Equity Initiative Intern in 2006. She returned in 2011 as a Development Associate providing fundraising support with an emphasis on foundations, grants management, and special events. Her previous experience in the social justice realm includes working at Community Access Inc., which provides housing and services for people with psychiatric disabilities; serving as a domestic violence and substance abuse counselor in Philadelphia; and volunteering on two community renewal trips in particularly impoverished areas of the Philippines. After being awarded a grant by the Penn Institute for Urban Research, she also initiated and completed interdisciplinary research analyzing barriers to health for the elderly in underserved urban communities, results of which were published in The Journal of Research in Gerontological Nursing.
Cindy Lou earned her B.A. in World History and Poltical Science from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently pursuing her Juris Doctorate at Rutgers University School of Law-Newark, as an evening student.
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