Christine Robinson

Christine Robinson is a seasoned thought leader with expertise in building pathways to policy and systems change for justice. She has worked with non-profits, public sectors, generative networks, and systems across the US and overseas. She is a recognized strategist in equity, vision articulation, organizational culture and climate, and program design and development. Robinson brings extensive experience in program evaluation, forming collaborative projects, and launching local, statewide, regional, and national initiatives on social justice issues. She currently works as an executive coach, consultant, facilitator, and strategist, and she creates initiatives across the US and the U.K. focused on nurturing a culture of well-being.

Robinson prioritizes intersectional equity in all aspects of her work. Intersectionality examines power dynamics, transcends communities, practices, and realms of society, and is grounded in application and practice. Intersectional equity goes further by recognizing and valuing each person’s multiple identities. Equity can be exhibited through an open invitation to participate, unbiased access, and co-creation with those directly affected by building strategies and programs and in the improved infrastructure of institutions, systems, and communities.

Robinson is committed to improving outcomes for girls and women worldwide. She has utilized her expertise to make significant strides in numerous initiatives across several sectors. For example, she consulted for the Obama Administration’s White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Her focus areas include organizational culture and climate, network weaving, environmental justice, economic security and asset strategies, health and education disparities, human development, two-generation strategies, policy alignment, equity and inclusion, the humanities, and place-based endeavors. She is passionate about scaling equity and well-being.

Robinson was appointed Director of the Division of School Age and Adolescent Health for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and was intimately involved in establishing the statewide network of school-based health centers and the first violence prevention coalitions in the US. She facilitated the creation of the first multicultural HIV/AIDS coalition in the US and the first K-12 HIV/AIDS curriculum. She also designed a significant disability initiative and brought an abiding commitment to co-creation, inclusion, the inherent dignity of all people, and recognition of historically marginalized communities’ numerous intersectional realities. Robinson, invited by the County Executive, wrote the equity blueprint and curriculum for LA County, the largest and most diverse county in the U.S.

She has also served as a Program Director, and senior consultant to some of the nation’s leading foundations, including the Ford Foundation, as co-architect of the six-year initiative to close the racial wealth gap; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, as coordinating consultant for the national childhood obesity initiative: the Pew Charitable Trusts; the Annie E. Casey Foundation; the Lumina Foundation; the Moriah Fund; and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Robinson studied at Vassar College, Brandeis University, and the University of Pennsylvania and is trained as a developmental and community psychologist. She was the 2017-18 Christopher Peterson Memorial Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in Applied Psychology and is currently a Senior Fellow and Lecturer at the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey School of Public Policy.