Robin joined JMI in 2013. One of Robin’s main projects has been providing technical assistance and support through the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge (SJC). The goal of the challenge is to reduce the use of jail safely. She has served as a site coordinator to several sites who have been awarded grants through SJC. As site coordinator, Robin has assisted sites in identifying and implementing changes to their criminal justice systems to ensure that the right people are released from jail and the criminal justice system at each decision point is making fair, just, and expeditious decisions. Additionally, she has provided technical assistance by helping jurisdictions in defining data points across the criminal justice continuum to help stakeholders make informed decisions. This work has included working with two prosecutor offices’ implementation of diversion programs. She also led a multi-site case study analyzing how criminal justice systems do and can work collaboratively. One or her more recent projects has been to assist with the Native American Network created through the SJC and called the Wičhóyaŋke Network. The Wičhóyaŋke Network is a convening of Indigenous leaders from both the community and the criminal justice system, who have lived experience of implementing strategies to assist Indigenous communities to overcome the traumas and effects of racial disparities within the criminal justice system.

Prior to JMI, Robin brought more than twelve years of experience at The National Judicial College. Holding a variety of positions including Chief Academic Officer and Director of Grant Projects and Special Initiatives, Robin was responsible for the development and delivery of continuing legal education, resources, and tools for judicial officers throughout the United States. Robin was admitted to the California State Bar in 1997 after receiving her Juris Doctor from William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota.