Cynthia was appointed Dean—Faculty of Music at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario July 1, 2021. She leads a school of approximately 400 undergraduate and graduate music majors with programs in traditional conservatory programming coupled with innovative undergraduate specializations in Community Music and Afrodiasporic Music, and graduate degrees such as the MMC3 (Masters of Music in Collaboration, Curation, and Creative Performance). The Faculty of Music at Laurier has the only Bachelors, Masters, and PhD in Music Therapy in the country. She also oversees the Laurier Academy of Music and the Arts, a community-based school serving approximately 1000 students ranging from 6 months to 95 years old in the region. In the fall of 2025 Laurier Music will launch a new curriculum that dismantles the hierarchy between “classical” and “popular” music.