Cinda Firestone Fox is a woman of many talents, ideas and stories. An activist and rebel at heart, Cinda first gained notoriety while attending Miss Porter's, a boarding school, in Farmington, Connecticut. Cinda's disdain for mandatory church attendance led her to initiate a campaign to have the policy changed to voluntary. This action drew the ire of several local ministers who went on to preach sermons against Cinda. Cinda's protesting was just getting started. While attending Sarah Lawrence College, she got involved with the anti-Vietnam War movement and joined the strike committee that shut down the school in protest over the war. She was jailed during an anti-war protest at Columbia University. Cinda's desire to have her point of view win out led her to devote her entire senior year as the editor of the school paper in an unsuccessful attempt to oust the new University president who held different philosophical views than she. Upon graduation from Sarah Lawrence, Cinda began working at the radical, left wing Liberation News Service. Radical and community newspapers used LNS alike. It was during an interview with acclaimed director Emile de Antonio, that Cinda was offered a position as Emile's assistant. She started working for Emile immediately, and at just 23 years old, she produced the acclaimed documentary film, Attica. Although she went on to make 3 more documentaries, the stress of working on the Attica film caught up to her and she became ill to the point she had to isolate herself. After several years, the fully healed, 35 year old Cinda, married Manny Fox whom she had just met through her desire to become involved in theater. Manny had just finished the Duke Ellington musical, Sophisticated Ladies. Cinda began her work in theater by writing 3 original musicals for Children's Theatre, and her projects included music written by her son, William. She recently wrote a new musical comedy, Family Fortune with Puerto Rican composer Alberto Carrion. Today, the older, but nonetheless still feisty, Cinda, lives in Puerto Rico and fights to save the nests of the endangered sea turtles.