Cynthia Peterson

Cynthia Peterson is an experienced strategic marketing consultant currently working at Aukema & Associates since April 2018 and also serving as a communications consultant at Rael & Letson since August 2023. Prior to these roles, Peterson operated as a nonprofit consultant while self-employed from 2015 to February 2018, and held various significant positions in marketing, including marketing director and business strategist at Marketing Intelligence from September 2015 to January 2017, and communications manager at Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation from June 2011 to December 2014. Additional experience includes serving as director of communications and resource development at the YMCA of the Central Bay Area from April 2010 to June 2011, marketing and communications director at Berkeley-Albany YMCA from October 2006 to April 2010, and marketing director at YMCA of Greater Seattle from March 2003 to August 2006. Cynthia Peterson earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Western Washington University and pursued further education at the University of California, Berkeley.