Cindi Leive

• Website: http://www.glamour.com/
• Biography: Cynthia Leive has served as Editor-in-Chief of Glamour magazine since May 2001. Glamour is the most celebrated women’s magazine today, having won more than 170 journalism awards. It reaches more than12 million readers each month, or 1 in 10 women in America. Under Leive, Glamour has received a record number of editorial awards, including a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 2005 (a women’s magazine had not even been nominated in over a decade); and, in 2007 Glamour won the National Magazine Award for Personal Service. Crain’s put Leive on its “Top 40 Under 40” list, and she was also named one of Gotham magazine’s most powerful women under 40 in New York. Leive’s work has also been recognized outside the media industry. In 2008 she received a White House Project “EPIC” award for publishing In Search of Hope: The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl. In 2006 she received a “Matrix” award from Women in Communications; a “Champion of Choice” award from NARAL-NY for her continued coverage of women’s health; and, along with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Gloria Steinem, a “Lead Her” award from Girls Learn International for her activism in bringing Pakistani heroine Mukhtar Mai to the U.S. for the first time. She received the 2005 “New York Success Is Working” award from Dress for Success; and, the “Celebration of the Power of Women” award from the NOW Legal Defense Fund. Leive also frequently discusses women’s issues, from fashion to politics, on industry and community panels and regularly appears on Today, Good Morning America, The View and ABC World News Tonight. Prior to joining Glamour, Leive served as Editor-in-Chief of Self magazine, which enjoyed unprecedented gains in circulation during her time as Editor. A graduate of Swarthmore College, Leive began her career in publishing at The Paris Review and The Saturday Review. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, film producer Howard Bernstein, daughter Lucy and son Isaac.