Candice Wynter
Candice is a systems thinker, storyteller, and strategic communicator with ten years of experience working on social issues across the private and nonprofit sector. She is committed to use her skills and voice to help advance equity and justice for Black, Brown, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+ people and other systematically marginalized communities in the United States and globally.
Previously, Candice served as Director of Communications at the Nathan Cummings Foundation, a family foundation that supports work advancing racial, economic, and environmental justice in the U.S. and Israel–Palestine. In addition to leading internal and external communications, she absorbed knowledge about grantmaking, mission–aligned investing, and active ownership as tools for social change. Her experience in philanthropy was augmented by her work as a communications consultant for the New York Foundation, a community foundation supporting grassroots advocacy, community organizing, and movement–building in NYC.
Prior, Candice served on the public affairs team at a communications agency, Burson Cohn & Wolfe, where she honed her understanding of global media systems. She worked with Fortune 500 clients like Bank of America and Microsoft on corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects, and led accounts for Unshackled Ventures, an early–stage fund focused on immigrant founders; and 826, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving young student’s writing skills. She also held development positions at nonprofits in her home state of Florida, including Alachua County Habitat for Humanity and the local environmental film festival Cinema Verde. It’s here that she built an appreciation for community outreach and collaboration, which still informs her work today.
Inspired by her grandmother’s career as a political reporter in Jamaica, Candice graduated magna cum laude from University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications.
While earning an undergraduate degree, she studied abroad in France and England, served as the community service director for the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA), and did freelance reporting for the largest student–run newspaper in the U.S.
Through NUF, Candice hopes to become a more informed, inspiring, and courageous leader capable of creating change both inside systems and beyond them. She seeks to strengthen her management skills, while gaining a greater understanding of policy analysis and implementation at the intersections of environmental, economic, racial, and gender justice.
She is open to the multiverse of career paths that would allow her to advance social impact, but one of her aspirations is to lead a nonprofit or philanthropic organization. Ultimately, she is interested in work that allows her to reimagine what is politically and culturally possible in our lifetimes.
Outside of work, Candice enjoys geeking out on film/TV, connecting with nature, traveling abroad, and anything that makes her dance.