Cynthia Telles | |
|---|---|
 Telles in 2022 | |
| United States Ambassador to Costa Rica | |
| Assumed office March 11, 2022 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Sharon Day |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Cynthia Ann Telles |
| Spouse(s) | Robert Hertzberg (m. 1995; div. 2005) Joseph Waz (m. 2015) |
| Relations | Raymond Telles (father) Monica C. Lozano (cousin) |
| Education | Smith College (BA) Boston University (PhD) |
Cynthia Ann Telles is an American academic and psychologist who currently serves as the United States ambassador to Costa Rica. She is a clinical professor in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and serves on the executive committee of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. She is the founding director of the Hispanic Neuropsychiatric Center of Excellence.