Cynthia "Cinny" Clare Kennard (born December 28, 1953) is an American business and nonprofit executive, author and former broadcast journalist.
She is the executive director of The Annenberg Foundation, based in Los Angeles, and Annenberg PetSpace.Kennard was a television news correspondent with CBS News in London, Los Angeles and Moscow, and a local television reporter in Texas, California and Indiana.
Her journalism awards include a 1992 Alfred I.
duPont–Columbia University Award for coverage of the 1991 Persian Gulf War.She went on to a long career in nonprofit executive management with NPR, Smithsonian Media, and The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands.