She has worked for Xerox Palo Alto Research Center studying artist/ scientist collaborations, Microsoft Mobile Electronics doing an ethnography of mobile professional work practices, and Verizon Labs identifying new service concepts for Broadband to the home technology and at IBM studying complex collaboration.Cynthia recently founded the Pacific Ethnographic Research Center, to do work that is good for people, nature and the world using ethnographic work to inform education, advocacy and entrepreneurial activities.