Cindi Adler

Former Washington Correspondent Cindi Adler, formerly Cindi Angelini, worked in television and radio for more than 20 years. She started her career in broadcasting working at radio stations in Houston and San Diego, and went on to work as a local reporter and anchor at ABC's KVIA TV in El Paso and the sister station KVII in Amarillo before moving to the nation's capital. In 1983, just as President Reagan was campaigning for his second term in office, Adler moved to Washington, DC to provide national coverage to network owned television and radio stations across the country. As a DC bureau Washington correspondent, she covered the White house, Capitol Hill, Pentagon, State Department, and traveled to presidential conventions, shuttle launches, as well as other national events to provide live coverage. From the U.S. Capitol Building, Adler hosted two weekly political talk shows for stations in St. Louis and Detroit, where she interviewed congressmen and senators about relevant issues and legislation under consideration in the House and Senate. Her career would lead to writing and producing documentaries and industrial videos, before leaving broadcasting to spend more time with her family. Adler wrote in the Prologue, “Trapped in my home watching news all day, and not being in the middle of it, during the pandemic was tortuous. I started to take notes in the off chance the pandemic evolved into something more significant. My intention was to create a little keepsake for my future grandchildren, something they could take to class some day for show-and-tell to say, ‘my grandma lived through a pandemic and made this little book.’ A leave-behind of sorts with explanations of what happened and what mistakes were made, so that in the future, perhaps in another hundred years when there was another pandemic, some lessons could be learned. I had no idea at that time it would evolve into a book about a really crazy year in history.” In her book, 2020 Beyond Words– the Street Art Guide to a Breathtaking Year, Adler draws on the inspiration of political street artists from around the globe, who were messaging on the boarded up storefronts forced to close during the pandemic, to lead the stories that needed to be told. More than 180 images of street art, painted by more than 150 renowned street artists personify the world struggle during a year when “it felt as if the borders around countries disappeared and we were all just one people fighting the same deadly virus, the same racial injustice, and the same terrible leadership.”