Cindy Allen has been named chairman of the board of Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA). For the first year of her three-year term, she will serve as cochair along with incumbent chairman David Rockwell.
Allen has served as editor-in-chief of Interior Design magazine for the past 10 years. She has also served as a board member of both The Alpha Workshops and Design Trust for Public Space, a pair of design-oriented nonprofit organizations based in New York City.
DIFFA provides funding to organizations that provide HIV/AIDS education to those at risk and direct care to those living with the virus. Since its founding in 1984, the group has drawn on the resources of the design and visual arts communities to raise more than $40 million.
