Cynthia Beard (she/her)

Board Vice Chair

Cynthia is a musician and musicologist who is passionate about grassroots-led political organizing in Colorado, where she currently lives, and her home state of Texas. She is on the advisory board of the Texas Future Project and the Ambassadors Council for NextGen America. She focuses much of her advocacy work on anti-racism, climate change, progressive faith-based organizing, and building a more equitable world for all. She has a PhD in Musicology from the University of North Texas, with a dissertation focused on Francis Poulenc’s opera Dialogues of the Carmelites, and she has a broader interest in the intersection of politics and music. She currently teaches piano lessons and serves as an independent editor for academically oriented writing projects. She enjoys hiking with her dog, making music and other forms of creative expression, traveling, and canning peaches in the late summer.