Cinnamon Stillwell is the West Coast Representative for Campus Watch, a project of the foreign policy think tank founded and directed by Daniel Pipes, the Middle East Forum. Campus Watch reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North America with an aim to improving them. To that end, Cinnamon contributes articles and blog posts focusing on West Coast colleges and universities, among others. She also recruits writers to cover West Coast events and academics, and edits their work.

Cinnamon's background is primarily media focused. She started out writing political columns for ChronWatch.com, a media watchdog and conservative website originally set up to focus on the San Francisco Chronicle. She later became a featured columnist and then contributing editor.

In an interesting turn of events, she went on to become a political columnist for SFGate.com, the online arm of the San Francisco Chronicle. She was a contributor from 2004 to 2008.

Her articles have also appeared at The American Thinker, FrontPage Magazine, inFocus (Jewish Policy Center), Family Security Matters, Accuracy In Media, California Republic, WEBCommentary, The Black Republican, J:The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, Israel National News, Jewish Press, News Busters, The Reality Check, ChronWatch, OpEds.com, Intellectual Conservative, The Conservative Voice, California Conservative, Proud To Be Canadian Blog,  Think-Israel.org, and The World Jewish News Agency, as well as being included in several books.

Along with blogging at Campus Watch, Cinnamon maintains her own blog at CinnamonStillwell.blogspot.com. She has contributed to the blogs Kesher Talk and Solomonia.

Cinnamon is the founder of XLeft, an online discussion group for those who, like herself, went from left to right--or somewhere in between--after 9/11. Her initial column on the subject, The Making of a 9/11 Republican, tells the story of her political transformation. More can be read on the subject here, here, and here. 

Along with appearing on Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends" and the Bay Area television shows, "Spotlight on the Middle East," "San Francisco/Unscripted," and "ViewFinder: Songs of Hope" (on Sacramento PBS affiliate KVIE) Cinnamon has been a guest on a number of local, national, and international talk radio shows, including The Savage Nation, The Lars Larson Show, Forum with Michael Krasny, Tovia Singer on Israel National Radio, and many more.

Cinnamon is a San Francisco Bay Area native who grew up in Marin County and graduated from San Francisco State University. She still lives in the Bay Area today with her husband, Jimmie. 

Her mother, Mara Wallis, is a documentary filmmaker. To purchase or read about her documentary, Entertaining Vietnam, click here.