Bio
Robinson has a deep commitment to social justice; with a focus on listening to communities who have traditionally been marginalized. Robinson brings substantial experience in facilitation, strategy and program development, design, and implementation; formation of collaborative ventures; work with grassroots, communities of color, indigenous and immigrant communities; and in launching and evaluating local, statewide, regional and national initiatives. Substantive interests include structural opportunity and systems thinking, poverty alleviation, human development, implicit bias, organizational capacity building, equity, and bringing theory to practice.
Robinson believes in the primacy of relationships and has worked in the nonprofit sector for more than 25 years. She chaired the board of Grantmakers for Children Youth and Families and served on the steering committee of the Grantmakers Income Security Task Force, the Asset Funders Network, and the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative. As Director of the Division of School Age and Adolescent Health for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, she was intimately involved in the establishment of the statewide school-based health centers system and the first violence prevention coalitions in the U.S. Moreover she worked on the establishment of the first multicultural HIV/AIDS coalition in the US, developed a large national collaborative to close the racial wealth gap, and a range of health and educational equity endeavors including early childhood frames and equity blueprints. She has held senior positions, in philanthropy, the public sector, the non-profit sector and published numerous articles.
Specialties: social justice, economic security; child, youth/young adult, and family development; health and wealth disparities; gender, disabilities. Excellent leadership ability, planning, problem-solving, analysis, coalition building, organizational capacity building, program development, evaluative and presentation skills.
