About Cyn

Full of thoughts (many of them useless, most of them random, and some of them extraordinary), Cynthia Thomet lends her range of experience, expertise, and talents to help individuals, businesses and nonprofits craft practical and affordable marketing strategies. At present, she is a restaurant owner and general manager in downtown Atlanta, where she spends most of her time waiting tables, waxing political with customers, crafting marketing materials for fun and plotting her next creative step.

Before getting ensnared in the restaurant business, Cynthia was developing a public relations and marketing business, but the fates dangled delicious dishes before her nose and led her in an entirely new and unexpected direction.

Past projects have included providing marketing assistance to emerging authors, establishing and implementing communications marketing strategies for nonprofits, including a community access TV station, and helping nonprofits, small businesses and individuals develop effective marketing communications outreach approaches and tools. Cynthia has developed, implemented, coordinated and evaluated successful integrated communications campaigns in a variety of industries ranging from fashion and beauty to media and criminal justice, retail and restaurants. She has also worked on such issues as landmines, genocide, criminal justice and the environment. With over 10 years experience, she has learned that her passion lies in marketing services that directly benefit worthy causes. In so doing, she has landed hundreds of media mentions for a death row inmate, a Nobel Peace prize awardee, a chef restaurateur, and an award-winning producer. They have appeared on Oprah, Larry King Live, Anderson Cooper 360, NPR’s Morning Edition, and Voice of America to name a few broadcast outlets. They have been featured in Parade Magazine, People, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.

Cynthia has ghost-written countless press releases, opinion pieces, letters to the editor, to help advocates and activists publish their community voices in the Deseret Morning News, Christian Science Monitor, San Jose Mercury News and many others.

Cynthia has spoken on marketing for media organizations at the Access Without Borders 2008 Western Region Conference in Denver, and she has also appeared on community television, to host local news segments and interview guests.

Of multi-national citizenship, Cynthia speaks four languages (English, French, Schwyzerduetsch, and Italian), tutors French once a week, and is herself in the process of learning Spanish. She has lived in numerous cities and visited more than a dozen countries in North, South and Central America, Europe and the Caribbean.

In her free time (ha!), Cynthia enjoys walking, reading, writing and eating—though not at the same time. Her most recent by-lines have been about food culture for HUMNews.com, an international news media organization that strives to narrow the geographic gap in media. She lives in Atlanta with her sweetheart.