University of Maryland Athletics

Cynthia Edmunds joins the Maryland Athletics Department as the Senior Associate Athletic Director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion/Organizational Effectiveness on September 21, 2020. 

Edmunds has spent the last 12 years at the University of Maryland collaborating with various stakeholders, innovating change, and embedding DEI practices in order to enhance work relationships and support an engaged, diverse campus community. Prior to Maryland, Edmunds served as an organizational consultant for Caliber One Learning Systems from 2005-08. Before that, she worked in academic administration at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for 17 years from 1988-2005.
 
Since 2010, Edmunds served as the Assistant to the President, University Equity Administrator, Staff Ombuds Officer, and Director of the Thriving Workplace Initiative at the University of Maryland. She also held the role of Interim Chief Diversity Officer twice during the past three years for the university. All of these roles supported equity, diversity and inclusion across campus in addition to enhancing organizational effectiveness efforts. Over the past decade, she also served as the Equity Administrator for Maryland Athletics, overseeing each search process, including evaluating appropriate practices, analyzing and managing gender and racial analytics, and providing counsel on ways to enhance the recruitment of diverse staff and coaches. 

Edmunds earned a Bachelor of Arts from the College of Notre Dame in Maryland in 1989. She received a Masters from Johns Hopkins in 1994 specializing in adult education, counseling and organizational behavior. She also has a graduate certificate in facilitation from Johns Hopkins.