Robyn has extensive speaking experience. She has given talks in the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and England and Scotland UK. She has given keynotes, workshops, and talks on college campuses, at conferences and for community groups.
RECENT ENGAGEMENTS:
Academic year 2008-2009
June 21 and September 20, 2008: Robyn was a guest on "The Tenth Voice" an LGBT-centered program on KKFI radio out of Kansas
City, MO; Monmouth College (Monmouth, IL); BAGLY (Boston, MA); Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus Alumni Weekend (Cambridge, MA); Fenway Community Health Center (Boston, MA); Johnson Sate College (Johnson, VT); Northeastern University (Boston, MA); University of Wisconsin, La Crosse (La Crosse, WI); Carroll University (Waukesha, WI); University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI); University of Wisconsin, Parkside (Parkside, WI); Keene State College (Keene, NH); Worcester State College (Worcester, MA); . The 16th Annual CANDLE Conference for professionals who work with youth. (Stony Point, NY); State University of New York, College at Purchase (Purchase, NY); Boston College (Boston, MA); Wheaton College (Norton, MA); Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, IL); Carleton College (Northfield, MN); Metropolitan State University (St. Paul, MN); Fall Aging Conference (Brooklyn Center, MN); Salem State College (Salem, MA); Rhode Island College (Providence, RI); Stonehill College (Easton, MA); Lasell College (Newton, MA); University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH); SUNY Fredonia (Fredonia, NY); Arcadia University (Glenside, PA);NAGLY (Lynn, MA); Newton North High School (Newton, MA); The 11th Annual Common Threads Youth Empowerment Retreat at Stony Point Center (Stony Point, NY); January 28-February 1. Creating Change (Denver, CO); February 1. Auraria Campus (Metropolitan State College of Denver, Community College of Denver and University of Colorado at Denver and
Health Sciences Center) (Denver, CO); February 4. University of Northern Colorado (Greeley, CO); Jefferson Community & Technical College (Louisville, KY); University of Louisville (Louisville, KY); Stonehill College (Easton, MA); Lasell College (Newton, MA); Wheelock College (Boston, MA); James Madison University (Harrisonburg, VA); Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, NY); University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT); Fenway Community Health Center (Boston, MA); Salem State University (Salem, MA); Suffolk University (Boston, MA); Wheaton College (Norton, MA); GSAs on the North Shore of Massachusetts Conference (Andover, MA); University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI); Northeastern University (Boston, MA); True Colors Conference (Storrs, CT); East Carolina University (Greenville, NC); Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, IL); University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH); Brandeis University (Waltham, MA); Cleveland State University (Cleveland, OH); Edinboro University (Edinboro, PA); University of Massachusetts, Boston (Boston, MA); Ohio State University (Cleveland, OH); Worcester State College (Worcester, MA); Clark University (Worcester, MA); University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh (Oshkosh, WI); Ohio University (Athens, OH); Otterbein College (Westerville, OH); BECAUSE Conference (Keynote Speaker), Minneapolis, MN; Bisexual Inclusion: Community Dialogue (Minneapolis, MN); University of Minnesota and the Univesrity of North Dakota, Crookston (Crookston, MN/Grand Forks, ND); Augsburg College (Lavender Graduation Speaker) (Minneapolis, MN); Fresh Fruit Radio Show (Radio Interview) -- WKFA (St. Paul, MN); Come Out Kentucky Conference at Eastern Kentucky University (Richmond, KY); Fordham University, (Bronx, NY); Towson University (Towson, MD); Emerson College (Boston, MA).
Academic year 2007-2008
Workshop sponsored by the Seattle Bisexual Women's Network at the Seattle LGBT Center (Seattle, WA); Northwest Diversity Learning Series. (Seattle, WA); PFLAG Providence (Providence, RI); Boston University (Boston, MA); University of Delaware (Newark, DE); Univerity of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC); Colgate University (Hamilton, NY); Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY); Fenway Community Health Center, Helpline Training (Boston, MA); Northeastern University (Boston, MA); Monmouth College (Monmouth, IL); Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH); Ohio University (Athens, OH); Denison University (Granville, OH); PFLAG Annual Convention (Washington, DC) plenary speaker; SUNY Fredonia (Fredonia, NY); Boston College (Boston, MA); College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA); Harvard University (Cambridge, MA); Loyola College (Baltimore, MD); Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY); University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, ND), Wheelock College (Boston, MA), Creating Change Conference (Detroit, MI), Lasell College (Newton, MA); Featured Presenter Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender & Ally Campus Conference (Urbana Champaign, IL); College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA); Lasell College (Newton, MA); Knox College (Galesburg, IL); Fenway Community Health Center (Boston, MA); Southwestern Illinois College (Belleville, IL); Universalist Fellowship of the Peninsula (Newport News, VA); True Colors Conference (New London, CT); James Madison University (Harrisonburg, VA); The LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland (Cleveland, OH); Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH); SUNY College at Purchase (Purchase, NY); GLSEN Conference (Boston, MA); Gay Marriage Discussion at Gamm Theatre following David Mamet's Play Boston Marriage (Pawtucket RI); University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA); East Carolina University (Greenville, NC); Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI); University of Louisville (Louisville, KY); Central Michigan University (Mount Pleasant, MI); Illinois State University (Normal, IL); Clark University (Worcester, MA); Georgetown University (Washington, DC); Come Together Kentucky Conference at Northern Kentucky University (Highland Heights, KY); Tufts University (Medford, MA); DePaul University (Chicago, IL)
Academic year 2006-2007
Fenway Community Health Center, Helpline Training, Celebrate Bisexuality Day (Cambridge, MA), University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT), Boston University (Boston, MA), Rhode Island College (Providence, RI); State University of New York at Albany (Albany, NY); Cornell University (Ithaca, NY); Corning, Inc. special event sponsored by Spectra, Corning's LGBT employee group (Corning, NY); William Paterson University of New Jersey, LGBTQA Leadership Conference (Wayne, NJ). *Keynoter*; Boston College. (Chestnut Hill, MA); Transcending Boundaries Conference & PFLAG Northeast Regional Conference (Worcester, MA); Edinboro University (Edinboro, PA); NGLTF's Creating Change Conference (St. Louis, MO); Holy Cross College (Worcester, MA); Speaker at The Service of Morning Prayers, The Memorial Church, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA); Worcester State College (Worcester, MA); Radio Interview WBCR-LP, 97.7 FM: Common Sense Songs (Wed. 8-10pm, streamed on the web), (Great Barrington, MA ); BAGLY: Boston Area Gay & Lesbian Youth (Boston, MA), twice; Michigan State University (Lansing, MI); Emerson College (Boston, MA); University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse (LaCrosse, WI); Midwest GLBT Campus Conference (Minneapolis, MN). *Keynote Speaker!*; Drew University (Madison, NJ); University of Wisconsin, Platteville (Platteville, WI) *Keynote Speaker!*; Boston University (Boston, MA); Indiana University (Bloomington, IN); Stonehill College (Easton, MA); Radio interview on bloomingOut (on the web at http://wfhb.org/bloomingout/); True Colors Conference (New London, CT); College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA); Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) Conference (Boston, MA); Clark University (Worcester, MA); Emerson College (Boston, MA); Miami University of Ohio (Miami, OH); Hamilton College (Clinton, NY); Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME); Trinity College (Hartford, CT); Plymouth State University (Plymouth, NH) *Keynote Speaker!*; Boston College (Boston, MA); Northwestern Universtiy (Evanston, IL); University of Massachusetts, Amherst. (Amherst, MA). Speaker at Queer Graduation. Robyn was the recipient of the 2nd annual "Continuing the Legacy of Stonewall," presented at the end of each school year to a national figure who has made a difference in the lives of LGBT people.
Academic year
2005-2006:
Queer
FM radio in Vancouver with host Heather Kitching 101.9 FM.; OUT-FM
(New York City, NY) radio show on WBAI, NYC (99.5 FM). Archived on WBAI.org. Getting
Bi event! Book
Launch in Sydney Australia! at Gleebooks.Getting
Bi event! Book
launch in Toronto, Canada! at the Yorkville Library, Toronto ON;
Fenway
Community Health Center (Boston, MA). CIUT
89.5FM, Toronto, Canada. Radio interview. Marlboro
College (Marlboro, VT). Fenway
Community Health Center. Helpline training. (Boston, MA). GenderTalk
Radio Show (Boston WMBR 88.1 FM, and on the web on
Global Talk Radio; SpeakOut TV (Boston,
MA); Michelangelo Signorile Show (on Sirius
Satellite Radio); Queer Voices show. KPFT
Radio (Houston, TX); Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA); Metropolitan State University;
11th Annual National Coming
Out Day Luncheon. Keynote
speaker. (Minneapolis,
MN); University of Wyoming (Laramie,
WY); Worcester State College (Worcester,
MA); Getting Bi event!
at the Center
for New Words (Cambridge,
MA);
Q
Television; Boston College (Boston, MA); Stonehill College (Easton, MA); Transcending Boundaries Conference Getting Bi event! (E. Hartford, CT); Holy Cross College (Worcester, MA); NGLTF's Creating Change Conference Getting Bi event! (Oakland, CA); Reed College (Portland, OR); Northeastern University (Boston, MA); Harvard University (Cambridge, MA). Workshop for LGBT Tutors/Advisors; Seminar at Sea Program. (Caribbean Sea); NAGLY (North Shore LGBTQ Youth Group) (Salem, MA); BAGLY (Boston Area LGBTQ Youth Group) (Boston, MA); Fenway Community Health Center, Helpline Training (Boston, MA); Unitarian Universalist Church (Melrose, MA); Suffolk University (Boston, MA); Harvard University. workshop (Cambridge, MA); Wheaton College (Norton, MA); Boston University (Boston, MA); Harvard University. guest speaker in class (Cambridge, MA); Tufts University (Medford, MA); Stonehill College (Easton, MA); Holy Cross College (Worcester, MA); Christopher Newport University (Newport News, VA); Rhode Island College (Providence, RI); True Colors Conference (New Britain, CT); Northland College (Ashland, WI); University of Minnesota, Duluth (Duluth, MN); Safe Colleges Conference (Medford, MA); Northeastern University (Boston, MA); Emporia State University (Emporia, KS); Eastern United States LGBT Conference *Keynoter* (Albany, NY); 11th Annual Berkshire Stonewall Community Coalition Festival *Keynoter* (Lenox, MA); Ohio State University (Columbus, OH); May 12. A Matter of Pride Conference (Columbus, OH) *Keynoter; International Conference on Bisexuality, 9 (Toronto, ON, Canada).
Academic year
2004-2005
International
Day Against Homophobia (May 17) events; TV and
radio interviews. Paris, France; Tuesday Night.
(Interview broadcast on SABC's Radio 2000, South Africa); Queertalk
Radio WMPG 90.9 & 104.1 fm (Portland, ME); Cornell
College (Cedar Rapids, IA); Harvard University
(Cambridge MA) speaker in class; SUNY Plattsburgh
(Plattsburgh, NY); Harvard Divinity School (Cambridge
MA); Conference:
Creating Change (St. Louis, MO); College of
the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA); University of Wisconsin,
Oshkosh (Oshkosh, WI); Boston College (Boston,
MA); Stonehill College (Easton, MA); Conference:
Out in the Middle of the Wheat Fields. Keynote speaker. Held on the campus
of Washington State University (Pullman, WA); University
of Idaho (Moscow, ID); SUNY Fredonia (Fredonia,
NY); Northern Michigan University (Marquette, MI);
Drake University (Des Moines, IA); Tufts
University (Medford, MA); Rhode Island College
(Providence, RI); Coe College (Cedar Rapids, IA);
University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT); Stonehill
College (Easton, MA); Allegheny College
(Meadville, PA); Harvard University (Cambridge,
MA); Rhode Island College (Providence, RI); Worcester
State College (Worcester, MA); Bowling Green State
University (Bowling Green, OH); Stonehill College
(Easton, MA): Colgate University (Hamilton, NY);
Fenway
Community Health Center (Boston, MA); Wheaton
College (Norton, MA); True
Colors Conference (New Britain, CT); Ann
Arbor District Library (Ann Arbor, MI); University
of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI); Suffolk University
(Boston, MA); Suffolk University (Boston, MA); Worcester
State College (Worcester, MA); University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill: Southeastern
Unity Conference 2005 Conference
keynote speaker! (Chapel Hill, NC); Christopher
Newport University (Newport News, VA); Metropolitan
State University (St. Paul, MN); Lawrence
University (Appleton, WI); Stonehill College (Easton, MA); Brown University (Providence, RI);
Johnson State College (Johnson, VT); University
of Vermont (Burlington, VT); Plymouth State University
(Plymouth, NH); Parkland Community College (Urbana, IL); University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Urbana, IL); Suffolk
University. Keynote speaker, Lavender Graduation Ceremony. (Boston,
MA); State University of New York at Buffalo (Buffalo,
NY)
Academic year
2003-2004
EuroBiCon2:
The Second European Bisexual Conference (Dublin, Ireland). Keynote Speaker;
One-in-Ten
Show (Boston, MA); North
American Conference on Bisexuality (San Diego, CA) Keynote Speaker;
Brandeis University (Waltham, MA); BAGLY
(Boston Alliance for GLBTQ Youth) (Boston, MA); Rhode Island
College (Providence, RI); Stonehill
College (Easton MA); Susquehanna University (Selinsgrove,
PA); University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh PA); Northern
Illinois University (DeKalb, IL); Transcending
Boundaries Conference (Amherst, MA); Creating
Change Conference (Miami, FL); University of Delaware
(Newark, DE); Fenway Community Health Center (Boston
MA); University of Florida (Gainesville, FL); University
of North Dakota (Grand Forks, ND); Gettysburg College (Gettysburg, PA); "Creating Change in Our Communities: conference for residence
life staff at Dickinson College, Elizabethtown College,
Gettysburg College, Franklin & Marshall College (Carlisle, PA); Stonehill
College (Easton MA); Midwest
Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender & Ally Campus Conference (Ames,
IA) Keynote speaker; Human Rights Campaign (Washington,
DC); Rhode Island College (Providence, RI); True
Colors Conference (New Britain, CT); Ithaca College
(Ithaca, NY); Safe
Colleges Conferences (Medford, MA); Harvard
University (Cambridge, MA); Portland State University
(Portland, OR); University of Washington (Seattle,
WA); Buena Vista College (Storm Lake, IA); Knox
College (Galesburg, IL); IBM (Cambridge,
MA); 8th International Conference
on Bisexuality (Minneapolis, MN);
Academic year 2000-2003
GLBT
Student Leadership Retreat, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (Cambridge MA); University
of Rhode Island (Kingston, RI); Workshop, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA); BAGLY
(Boston Alliance for GLBTQ Youth); (Boston, MA);
True Colors X (W. Hartford,
CT); Hiram College (Hiram, OH). Keynote Speaker
for Pride Week; Central College, (Pella IA); Shippensburg
University LGBTA Conference (Shippensburg, PA); Keene
State College (Keene, NH); Chicago Collegiate Pride
Fest 2003 (Chicago, IL); University of Maine, Orono
(Orono, ME); Brandeis University
(Waltham, MA); University of Vermont (Burlington,
VT); University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS); Transcending
BoundariesConference (New Britain, CT): Keynote speaker; Newbury College (Boston, MA); University of Massachusetts, Boston (Boston, MA); Rhode Island
College (Providence, RI); University of Maryland (College Park, MD); Harvard
University, Humanities Center,
Lesbian and Gay Studies Seminar (Cambridge, MA); University
of Illinois, Chicago (Chicago, IL); Worcester Polytechnic
Institute (Worcester, MA); Worcester State College
(Worcester, MA);
Northeast Regional GLBTQA
College Conference (Amherst, MA). Keynote address; Annual
Conference of the National Association of Lesbian & Gay Addiction Professionals ( in conjunction with National Association of Alcohol & Drug Abuse Counselors)
(Boston, MA); Johnson State College (Johnson VT); Safe
Colleges Conference (Medford,MA); University of Wisconsin, Madison (Madison,
WI); Beloit College (Beloit, WI); University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH);
The Auraria Campus (Denver, CO); University of Colorado, Boulder (Boulder, CO);
Loyola College (Baltimore, MD); Newbury College (Brookline, MA); Swarthmore
College (Swarthmore, PA); Temple University (Philadelphia, PA); Massasoit Community
College (Brockton, MA); Brown University (Providence, RI); Salem
State College (Salem, MA); Transcending
Boundaries Conference (Yale University, New Haven CT); KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Northeast NOW's Les/Bi/Trans/Allies
Strategy Summit and Celebration (Fairlee VT); Rhode
Island College (Providence,
RI); The 1st North American Conference
on Bisexuality, Gender and Sexual Diversity (Vancouver, BC, Canada); KEYNOTE
SPEAKER: INTERNATIONAL BISEXUAL CONFERENCE VI (University of Manchester, United
Kingdom ; February 2001: Saint Cloud State University (Saint Cloud, MN); Hofstra
University (Long Island, New York); Radio Interview: WRPI (Troy, NY); Indiana
University of Pennsylvania (Indiana, PA); University of Rhode Island (Kingston,
RI); Children from the Shadows Conference
(Hartford, CT ); Beaver College / Arcadia University (Philadelphia, PA); Gallaudet
University (Washington, DC); Haverford College (Philadelphia, PA); Brandeis
University (Waltham, MA); Miami University of Ohio (Oxford, OH); State University
of New York, Binghamton (Binghamton, NY); Otterbein College (Westerville OH);
Knox College (Galesburg, IL); Latino Health Institute (Boston, MA); KEYNOTE
SPEAKER: The Dyke March (Boston, MA); European Bisexual Conference (Rotterdam,
The Netherlands) Radio Interview: Gender Talk.
CONFERENCES
Robyn has conducted workshops and/or appeared on panels at many conferences, including: International Lesbian and Gay Association, international and national conferences on bisexuality in the United States, Australia, the Netherlands, Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany, and national and regional glbt conferences. Conferences include: the 8th International Conference on Bisexuality (Minneapolis, MN); the Midwest Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender & Ally Campus Conference (Ames, IA); The BECAUSE Conference (Bisexual Empowerment Conference: A Uniting, Supportive Experience); Transcending Boundaries (Connecticut); Northeast Regional GLBTQA College Conference (Massachusetts). the Common Threads Youth Empowerment Conference; the CANDLE Conference for professionals who work with youth; the North Atlantic GLBT Rainbow Conference (Maine); the Midwest GLBTQACC Campus Conference (Minnesota, llinois and Iowa); the Eastern US GLBT Conference (New York); the Northeast Regional GLBTQA College Conference (Amherst, MA); the Safe Colleges Conference (Massachusetts); Children from the Shadows/ True Colors (Connecticut); Out on the Prairie (North Dakota); NELGSBU, Chicago Collegiate Pride Fest (Illinois); Pink Mountain (New Mexico); Building Bridges (Colorado) and Student Life in the Life (New England); National Association of Social Workers, New England; American College Personnel Assoc. Nat'l Conf (Boston); the National Association of Lesbian & Gay Addiction Professionals; the Gay & Lesbian Center in Paris; Creating Change (Conference of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force); Out in the Middle of the Wheatfields (Pullman, WA); Eastern United States LGBT Conference (Albany, NY); A Matter of Pride Conference [social workers] (Columbus, OH); Northeast NOW's Les/Bi/Trans/Allies Strategy Summit and Celebration (VT); North American Conference on Bisexuality (San Diego, CA); European Bisexual Conference (Rotterdam, The Netherlands); conference for residence life staff at Dickinson College, Elizabethtown College, , Franklin & Marshall College (Carlisle, PA); The 1st North American Conference on Bisexuality, Gender and Sexual Diversity (Vancouver, BC, Canada); EuroBiCon2: The Second European Bisexual Conference (Dublin, Ireland). Southeastern Unity Conference (Chapel Hill, NC); International Bisexual Conference (Manchester, UK); Transcending Boundaries (New Haven, CT and Worcester, MA); 11th Annual Berkshire Stonewall Community Coalition Festival (Lenox, MA); International Day Against Homophobia (Paris, France); and at pride celebrations and Dyke Marches in Boston, Northampton & Hartford.
CORPORATE & PROFESSIONAL GROUPS include IBM,; Corning Corporation; Lucent Corporation; the National Association of Lesbian & Gay Addiction Professionals; and Northwest Diversity Learning Series. (Seattle, WA).
RADIO SHOWS: Robyn has appeared on Playboy Radio (XM and Sirius radio); The Michelangelo Signorile Show (XM & Sirius Radio); This Show is So Gay (Brattleboro VT); "The Tenth Voice (Kansas City, MO); Fresh Fruit Radio Show (St. Paul, MN); GenderTalk Radio (Boston, MA); One-in-Ten Radio Show/ FNX (Boston, MA); WRPI HomoRadio (Troy, NY); OUT FM/ WBAI (NYC, NY); (Queer FM Radio (Vancouver, BC, Canada); CIUT 89.5FM (Toronto, Ontario, Canada); SABC's Radio 2000 Tuesday Night show (South Africa); The Tenth Voice, KKFI (Kansas City, MO).
TELEVISION SHOWS Include Donohue; Rolanda; Maury Povich; People are Talking; SpeakOut TV; Q TV; the Shirley Show (Canada); and Hour Magazine.
Note: These listings are not intended to be comprehensive, but rather representative.