Pamela Cytrynbaum

Cytrynbaum is a graduate of Evanston Township High School and received her BSJ from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She received her MAT from Oregon State University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamela-cytrynbaum-1b083028|title=Pamela Cytrynbaum {{!}} LinkedIn|website=www.linkedin.com|access-date=2016-07-23}}

As a journalist, Cytrynbaum reported on criminal justice issues for the New Orleans Times-Picayune before becoming a staff writer for the Chicago Tribune (1992–1997), where she was columnist Mike Royko's "legman."{{cite web|url=http://jimromenesko.com/2012/07/10/pamela-cytrynbaum-named-chicago-innocence-project-executive-director/|title=» Pamela Cytrynbaum named Chicago Innocence Project executive director JIMROMENESKO.COM|website=jimromenesko.com|date=2 February 2023 }} Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Miami Herald, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Washington Post, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, the Jewish Daily Forward, and The Oregonian.

Cytrynbaum is the executive director of The Chicago Innocence Center. As field advisor for the center's team of interns, she co-teaches weekly seminars alongside CIC President and Founder David Protess. Cytrynbaum is also in charge of fundraising and public speaking, outreach, managing the center's social media presence, reviewing cases, and overseeing the interns' work.

Cytrynbaum serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for Prosecutor Integrity (2014–present), a Maryland-based nonprofit fighting to end prosecutorial misconduct. She works in the restorative justice movement, collaborating with the Evanston Police Department to lead peace circles and organizing victim-offender conferences in District 65 elementary schools in Evanston (2014–present). She is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Community of Restorative Researchers.

She is a former blogger for NBCUniversal (2011–2012). She currently writes about parenting, divorce, and various social justice issues as a regular blogger for both Psychology Today (2009–present) and Teaching Tolerance, the educational magazine of The Southern Poverty Law Center (2011–present).{{Cite web|url=http://www.tolerance.org/author/pamela-cytrynbaum|title=Pamela Cytrynbaum {{!}} Teaching Tolerance – Diversity, Equity and Justice|website=www.tolerance.org|date=12 August 2011 |access-date=2016-07-21}}

For over 7 years, Cytrynbaum taught journalism and media courses at Oregon State University and in the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication. There, she worked with faculty to create the High School Journalism Workshop for Minority Students.

From 2005–2007, Cytrynbaum taught American Studies and Journalism at Brandeis University where she served as associate director of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism and director of the Justice Brandeis Innocence Project (now the Justice Brandeis Law Project).

Cytrynbaum taught undergraduate and graduate journalism courses in writing, reporting, and multimedia journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism from 2010–2012. She won the Students' Choice Award For Teaching] in 2012.{{cite web|url=http://dailynorthwestern.com/2012/04/17/campus/campusarchived/musac-names-cytrynbaum-winner-of-medill-students-choice-award/|title=MUSAC names Cytrynbaum winner of Medill Students' Choice Award|first=Cat|last=Zakrzewski|website=dailynorthwestern.com|date=17 April 2012 }}

Cytrynbaum's writings have appeared in a number of publications which include:{{citation needed|date=March 2015}}

• The New York Times{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/12/26/specials/bukowski-hollywood.html|title=So Much Genius! So Little Money!|website=www.nytimes.com|access-date=2016-07-21}}
• The Washington Post{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/08/13/the-joys-of-fostering-a-special-child/4bcae246-5284-456d-8688-7111bb6b29cb/|title=THE JOYS OF FOSTERING A SPECIAL CHILD|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=2016-07-21}}
• Psychology Today {{Cite web|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/because-im-the-mom/201602/the-myth-complicated-grief|title=The Myth of 'Complicated' Grief|website=Psychology Today|access-date=2016-07-21}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/because-im-the-mom/200908/hypervigilant-anxiety-meets-worst-case-reality-i-got-punkd-my-own|title=Hypervigilant anxiety meets worst-case reality: I got punk'd by my own brain|website=Psychology Today|access-date=2016-07-21}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/because-im-the-mom/201408/how-good-wives-survive-bad-marriages|title=How Good Wives Survive Bad Marriages|website=Psychology Today|access-date=2016-07-23}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/because-im-the-mom/201408/whose-pain-wins-did-robin-williams-have-choice-says-who|title=Whose Pain Wins? Did Robin Williams Have a Choice? Says Who?|website=Psychology Today|access-date=2016-07-23}}
• The Times-Picayune
• Teaching Tolerance{{Cite web|url=http://www.tolerance.org/race-talk|title=Race Talk When Diversity Equals One {{!}} Teaching Tolerance – Diversity, Equity and Justice|website=www.tolerance.org|date=12 August 2011 |access-date=2016-07-21}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.tolerance.org/blog/saving-lives-our-lgbt-students|title=Saving the Lives of Our LGBT Students {{!}} Teaching Tolerance – Diversity, Equity and Justice|website=www.tolerance.org|date=21 March 2012 |access-date=2016-07-21}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.tolerance.org/blog/bullying-not-team-sport|title=Bullying is Not a Team Sport {{!}} Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice|website=www.tolerance.org|access-date=2016-07-23}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.tolerance.org/blog/facebook-my-classroom-too|title=Facebook is My Classroom, Too {{!}} Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice|website=www.tolerance.org|date=25 July 2012 |access-date=2016-07-23}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.tolerance.org/blog/students-get-real-insight-abilities|title=Students Get Real Insight Into Abilities {{!}} Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice|website=www.tolerance.org|date=27 November 2012 |access-date=2016-07-23}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.tolerance.org/blog/case-missing-women|title=The Case of the Missing Women {{!}} Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice|website=www.tolerance.org|date=27 April 2012 |access-date=2016-07-23}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.tolerance.org/blog/hundreds-offenses-go-unchecked|title=Hundreds of Offenses Go Unchecked {{!}} Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice|website=www.tolerance.org|date=4 May 2012 |access-date=2016-07-23}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.tolerance.org/blog/giving-gift-college-education|title=Giving the Gift of a College Education {{!}} Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice|website=www.tolerance.org|date=16 December 2011 |access-date=2016-07-23}}
• The Miami Herald
• Chicago Tribune{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2009/07/15/brothers-death-hits-harder-than-most/|title=Brother's death hits harder than most|website=Chicago Tribune |date=15 July 2009 |access-date=2016-07-21}}
• The Oregonian{{Cite web|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/06/oregon_case_puts_reliability_o.html|title=Oregon case puts reliability of science itself on trial|date=21 June 2009 |access-date=2016-07-23}}
• The Chicago Sun-Times

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