Author of: Moving Out! A Young Adult's Guide to Living on Your Own available online and instore at Chapters and on Amazon.com

Cindy Babyn was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. While acquiring a degree in classical music performance she worked with a mentor to influence the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music to celebrate Canadian contemporary music by founding and directing the annual New Music Festival, which continues to exist today.

Cindy has managed concert series, taught music at a private inner-city music school, and has given it all she's got to further the public good through her various jobs within the Government of Canada (festival and performing arts series support — particularly making a significant impact on the increase in arts funding to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities in Ontario; cultural infrastructure support; Canadian cultural exporters' support; and she currently works at Invest in Canada to attract foreign and multinational companies to establish or expand their operations in Canada.

Although she has performed as a professional musician in a variety of engagements across Canada (Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Calgary Folk Festival, Ottawa Folk Festival, Accès Asie, Shelter Valley Folk Festival, Ontario Council of Folk Festivals, etc.), she has allowed that aspect of herself to sunset.

In her personal life, she is a visual artist, creating oil paintings of Canadian landscapes and has taken up ballroom dance lessons. She has dreams of seeing an owl in the wild, and flying with a jet pack just as soon as they become available!