Robin-Renee is a first-generation college student from West Philadelphia. She is currently a PhD student in the Urban Education program at the University of Pittsburgh where her research interest centers on urban, racially minoritized and economically underresourced students. Framing her work within antiBlackness and Critical Race Theory, she examines college access and equity in tandem with Department of Education financial aid and student loan policies.
Professionally, Robin-Renee has served as an administrator for student support programs where she advised first-generation undergraduates from pre-freshman to college graduation.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania where she majored in sociology and minored in biology. Subsequently, she matriculated to Temple University to complete an MEd in Urban Education Policy and an MEd in Higher Education Administration.
Robin-Renee transferred into the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh because of its Mission Vision to “disrupt and transform inequitable educational structures”, and its commitment to create nationally competitive research scholars.