Cindy Brinker Simmons
CPRIT Foundation
Board Member
Ms. Simmons serves as president of the award-winning, full-service strategic communications company Levenson & Brinker Public Relations. She is considered a specialist in media campaign execution and community relations utilizing her writing skills, creativity and extensive special events background to create multiple opportunities for client visibility.
Coinciding with starting her professional career, Ms. Simmons devoted herself to philanthropic concerns. In 1980, she founded Wipe Out Kids’ Cancer, one of Dallas’s largest pediatric cancer organizations, in memory of her mother, the late great tennis champion Maureen “Little Mo” Connolly Brinker, who died of cancer in 1969 at the age of 34.
Ms. Simmons is the author of the popular book, LITTLE MO’s LEGACY: A Mother’s Lessons, A Daughter’s Story. She is also president of the Maureen Connolly Brinker Tennis Foundation, one of the nation’s oldest and most esteemed non-profit organizations furthering junior tennis development worldwide.
Ms. Simmons currently serves on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations in Dallas.
