Cindy Lynn Richard, CIH
Director of Risk Communication
Cindy Lynn Richard is the Director of Risk Communication for Environmental Profiles, Inc, Columbia, Maryland. She has focused on risk communication, and issues management since 1989. Ms. Richard utilizes proven communications strategies and her technical expertise in occupational health and environmental risk assessment to assist senior scientists, government officials, and business leaders through high stress, media, and public communications.
As an independent consultant, Ms. Richard has focused on public outreach and regulation related to (1) low-level environmental exposures, (2) agricultural and urban pest control methods, (3) food and agricultural biotechnology, and (4) numerous workplace and environmental exposures issues. Ms. Richard has worked with international visitors, U.S. and international government officials, and technology leaders to develop and implement effective strategies to bring technical information into public discussions.
Fall 2004, Ms. Richard served as an environmental and communication advisor to the Thai Department of Agriculture in Bangkok, Thailand at the request of the U.S. Department of State. For the four years prior to this, she worked as the Biotechnology Communications Coordinator and Program Manager for the non-profit organization, the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology where she provided risk communication training for volunteer science communicators, coordinated interdisciplinary reviews, public meetings, and international educational programs including the Sino-U.S. Agricultural Biotechnology Safety Assessment Cooperation.
Ms. Richard was the Senior Scientist in a risk communication firm, where her role was to provide technically accurate and innovative issues management and risk communication services to influence public understanding of issues related to evolving technologies and human exposures. Prior to this she was a Senior Scientist with a firm of physicians, and toxicologists. Before entering consulting, she served as a senior industrial hygienist with the Johns Hopkins Institutions Office of Safety and Environmental Health. Early in her career, she focused on neurotoxicology research.
Ms. Richard has a degree in Biology from Goucher College and maintains certification in the comprehensive practice of industrial hygiene from the American Board of Industrial Hygiene.
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