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Cyndi Burnett, BFA, MS, EdD (she/her/hers)

Director
Creativity in Education
Buffalo, New York, United States

Dr. Cyndi Burnett is the Director of Possibilities at Creativity and Education She is a creativity in education scholar, educator, and practitioner whose work focuses on empowering educators to infuse creative thinking into the classroom. She spent 20 years as an academic teaching deliberate creative thinking and creativity problem-solving in the Department of Creativity and Change Leadership at SUNY Buffalo State University. She ran a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Igniting Your Everyday Creativity with over 80K participants worldwide. She is the recipient of the President's Medal for Excellence in Teaching by SUNY Buffalo State University, was Buffalo Business First, Woman of Influence for her work in creativity, and was featured in the NY Times article titled “Creativity Becomes an Academic Discipline.”

Dr. Burnett hosts the Fueling Creativity Podcast, where she interviews leading researchers, practitioners, and educators on creative thinking in education. She is the co-author of the books Weaving Creativity into Every Strand of Your Curriculum, 20 Lessons for Weaving Creativity into Your Curriculum, My Sandwich is a Spaceship: Creative Thinking for Parents and Young Children, and most recently, Infusing Creative Thinking into Higher Education.

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