Robin Willig is the Director of Development and External Affairs at the Roosevelt Institute.
Robin Willig joined the Roosevelt Institute in January, 2011, with more than 20 years of nonprofit fundraising experience, most recently as the Vice President of External Affairs for the Community Service Society, one of New York's oldest nonprofits, which is dedicated to fighting poverty across the city's five boroughs through a range of service and policy interventions. Prior to that, Robin served as Senior Vice President for External Relations for the National Academy Foundation, a nonprofit founded by business leader Sanford I. Weill, which partners businesses with public high schools across the country to support students' educational achievement and career development. She has also worked with Teachers College, Columbia University; the New School; and Asphalt Green. Her nonprofit leadership includes board membership at the Center for Digital Storytelling. She began her professional career in book publishing, serving as Associate Managing Editor for Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Robin is also a published fiction writer; her most recent short story can be found in the Winter 2010 edition of Epiphany Literary Journal, and she won an Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train's April 2010 Family Matters Short Fiction competition. Robin received her Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Rhetoric from Binghamton University, and has participated in several creative writing programs, including a residency at the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and the New York State Writers Institute at Skidmore College.
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