After one satisfying career as a renal dialysis technician, Cindy began another when she returned to school and received her BA in psychology from Coppin State in 2000.  For the next five years she dedicated herself to children with mental and/or physical disabilities, teaching at Leith Walk Elementary, Patterson High School and Southwest Charter School.  Arriving at Independence in 2007, Cindy immediately became a crowd favorite, earning the nickname “Mama” from all of the students, a handful of teachers, and one pizza lady up the street.  By 2009, she had also earned her master’s in education as a reading specialist from Loyola College, as well as her master’s in urban education from Sojourner-Douglass College.