Ms. Derosier leverages her experience as a strategic planner, facilitator and communications consultant into helping Surfrider Spirit Sessions’ organizational development and continued success. Cynthia is the author of “The Surfer Spirit,” the book which inspired the Surfrider Spirit Sessions Program. She established and began implementing Spirit Sessions in 2007 and remains involved in Spirit Sessions programs and organizational and partnership development.
Born and raised in Hawai‘i, Cynthia is a graduate of Iolani School. She attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she earned a BFA and pursued a Masters Degree in Child Art Therapy at Columbia University. She currently runs The Good Juju Co and works as a strategic planner, communications strategist, graphic facilitator and consultant for non-profits, state and government entities.
Cynthia has served an Executive Committee of The Surfrider Foundation, O‘ahu Chapter. She has paddled in outrigger canoes and in sail canoes including long distance travel from Oahu to Kauai. She also loves to standup paddle board, draw, hike with her dog and of course, surf.