Robin brings a breadth of experience in nonprofit management, having served as an executive and board member for both large and small organizations. Her experience includes leadership roles with advocacy, charitable, educational, volunteer, and membership organizations.
Robin has facilitated multifaceted collaborations across issue areas, built and strengthened boards, and developed successful philanthropic initiatives. Clients include women's organizations, international NGOs, health care nonprofits, professional associations, and environmental groups.
As President of the AARP Foundation, she led a staff of more than 200 and a volunteer cadre of more than 38,000. During her tenure, revenue more than doubled and nearly one million donors were acquired. She established funds to support older victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Haiti earthquake. A former legal services lawyer, Robin is a licensed consultant for the Standards for Excellence Institute and is an associate consultant for the Maryland Nonprofits.
Robin serves on the boards of the Center for Responsible Lending and Help Age International. She has served previously as a board member for Living Cities, Legal Counsel for the Elderly, on the Harvard Kennedy School Women’s Leadership Board, and was a volunteer mediator with the DC Superior Court. She has presented at numerous conferences and has been featured on television and radio. She has also authored articles on topics such as dispute resolution, philanthropy, and consumer issues.
Robin received a Juris Doctor degree from Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She and her husband, Bruce Goldstein, live in Silver Spring, MD and Berkeley Springs, WV.
“At every turn it was easy to see her qualities of openness, integrity and passion for the Foundation’s mission.”