Cindy is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist who previously worked at both of Chicago’s major newspapers, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune. She discovered her passion for traveling with her kids when she was an editor for the award-winning regional magazine Chicago Parent.
She also has taught journalism in the graduate program at Northwestern University’s prestigious Medill School of Journalism.
She is a sought-after travel expert who is regularly featured on CBS Radio in Chicago and has been quoted in USA Today, the Washington Post and numerous travel sites.
Cindy is the mom of two now-grown children who have traveled with her since that first, fateful plane ride when one preschooler discovered a barf bag in his seat pocket and his sister, finding none in hers, demanded, “I want a barf bag too!”
