University Hall
301 University Blvd.
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Indianapolis, IN
46202
Biography
Cindy M. Lott is a clincial professor at the O'Neill School, as well as an attorney and faculty member at Indiana University's Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Her teaching, research, and consulting work spans nonprofit leadership, management and strategy, governance, ethics, legal compliance, regulation, and policy.
Lott develops and moderates a series of national convenings on state and federal regulation of the charitable sector and is engaged in research regarding charitable regulatory policy and the regulatory framework in the charitable sector in the United States. She is a frequent speaker at national conferences in the areas of nonprofit policy, governance, management, ethics, compliance, and state and federal charitable regulation. She has worked at large law firms in compliance, employment litigation and transactional litigation, and is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Indiana and Massachusetts.
Education
- J.D., Yale Law School, 1993
- B.A., Indiana University, 1989
Professional Experience
- Professional Doctorate in Philanthropic Leadership, Director
- School of Professional Studies, Columbia University, Associate Professor of Professional Practice and Academic Director for Nonprofit Management Programs
- National State Attorneys General Program at Columbia Law School, Executive Director and Senior Counsel
- Charities Regulation and Oversight Project, Developer and lead counsel
- IRS Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt Entities, 2015–18
- Independent Sector, Public policy committee, Present
- ARNOVA, Public Policy, Politics, and Law section, Cofounder
- Global Philanthropy Environmental Index Advisory Council, Member
- American Bar Association, Cochair for subcommittee on state issues for exempt organizations
- Wise Giving Alliance, Board member
- Columbia Law School, Adjunct Faculty
- Democratic National Convention, Chief Counsel, 2004
- Democratic National Convention, Deputy Counsel, 2000
- United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit, Clerk
Highlights
- Indiana University's Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Stead Policy Fellow
- Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute, Fellow
- Independent Sector, Inaugural Policy Fellow