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Cynthia Candido Nambo

D4E HIVE DESIGNER

Cynthia Candido Nambo

Equity & Executive Leadership Coach, 

Designer, Facilitator, & Consultant

Cynthia designs her life around praxis, love, and possibilities. For nearly three decades, her commitment to justice and education has compelled her to design systems for racial, gender, and class equity through cross-cultural coalition and innovation. As a result, Cynthia has direct experience in many of the key roles within complex systems - leader, facilitator, educator, principal, coach, activist, and designer. This is why she considers herself a praxis engineer.

With experience spanning across public school schools, bilingual education, charter schools, universities, and community-based organizations, Cynthia is most proud of her work in community-led contexts as with the Little Village Lawndale High School Campus, which would not have come to be if community members had not engaged in a 19 day hunger strike. As founding principal of Instituto Justice & Leadership High School, she developed an innovative model rooted in equity, competencies, and restorative justice Cynthia that had overwhelming success [as a Level 1 school that has been unmatched.]currently uses her knowledge and experience to coach school leaders, teachers, and teams for Tapestry, Synsai, and the Equity Imperative.

Cynthia’s dedication to equity-centered practices is a commitment to dignity and Black and Brown young people. But it is also more personal than that for her because her greatest pride comes from being a parent of two bilingual Mexican daughters, who have benefited from a dual language lived experience and education.

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