Cindy Toldeo serves as a Program Manager in the Maya Human Rights Program at Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim. Cindy is Maya K'anjob'al and graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a minor in Latin American Studies. Cindy has worked as a legal assistant at immigration law firms and currently volunteers with Indigenous rights organizations in California. Cindy is also a Board Member with Centro Cultural Techantit and Coordinator of the Social Support Commission for the National Council of Indigenous Peoples (CONPID). For many years, Cindy also was a volunteer for MayaVision. Cindy continues to work to maintain and improve Maya K'anjob'al linguistic traditions. As a trilingual woman, she speaks her ancestral Maya language as well as English and Spanish.

Cindy has participated in cultural activities since she was very young and has been a culture bearer for the Maya K’anjob’al Nation for more than 20 years. Cindy has practiced her grandparents' sacred ancestral knowledge, wisdom, and traditions since childhood. For many years, Cindy has participated in communal and musical activities of the Jolom K’onob territories in Yaag Na, Tongva Territories (also called Los Angeles, CA). In 2012, Cindy was the Representing Princess of Jolom K’onob in the Tongva Territories. She also started to play the marimba when she was about 8 years old in a group named Marimba Juventud Maya.