Robin has held senior positions in the U.S. Department of Labor. She served as the Director of Enforcement Policy and Procedures in the Wage and Hour Division and as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Department’s Civil Rights Center from 2013-2017. As Director of Enforcement Policy and Procedures in the Wage and Hour Division, she provided programmatic oversight, coordination, clearance, dissemination, implementation and enforcement of nationwide policies, directives, and procedures for the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act. She also assisted in the drafting of Executive Orders and implementing regulations focusing on provisions for survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence.

As a Senior Policy Advisor in the Civil Rights Center, she served as principal advisor to the Director of the Civil Rights Center and Chief, Office of Compliance providing technical assistance to various stakeholders on civil rights issues related to the Workforce Investment Act, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Rehabilitation Act, the Age Discrimination Act, and other laws. She also drafted regulations, guidance documents, and other policy documents in collaboration with other DOL agencies and federal departments. She has conducted national trainings and presentations on federal civil rights enforcement. 

Robin is a Distinguished Professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington University Law School where she has taught Domestic Violence Law, Public Interest Lawyering and the Workers' Rights Division of the Access to Justice Clinic. Previously, she was an assistant professor at the University of North Dakota School of Law where she taught in a Housing and Employment Law Clinic and Domestic Violence Law. She also directed the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence. 

Robin is a graduate of The George Washington University Law School and Wellesley College.