AHCC Board Member of The Week!

Innovative leader working on large-scale, cross-sector system change on complex social challenges to bring measurably better results.

She Serves as the Senior Vice President of Community Relations and Assistant to the President at Nusenda Credit Union. In addition, She is an "executive on loan" from Nusenda to the City of Albuquerque to help accelerate implementation and results in the areas of education, human services, economic and workforce development in her role as Chief Strategist for Albuquerque Living Cities Integration. 

Currently serving as loaned executive to the Mayor of Albuquerque for the Living Cities Albuquerque Integration Initiative; serving as Chief Strategist of the collective impact initiative. Leading multiple teams and working groups to accelerate implementation and results in the areas of job creation, talent and skill development education, human services, and economic and workforce development, with particular to shifting racial and economic disparities. With a focus on our City’s entrepreneurial spirit, unique strengths and underutilized assets, we are leveraging innovation, removing barriers, and creating a supportive and inclusive environment for success, championing the range of business from high-tech to home-grown. Our work is grounded in building jobs from within, re-allocating and re-aligning resources, addressing and changing bureaucratic obstacles, reforming policy to move different elements of our ecosystem simultaneously to foster organic creation of business and rebut under-employment and economic insecurity. 

Robin’s prior experience includes serving as strategic advisor to the New Mexico Children’s Cabinet. Established in state statute, the New Mexico Children’s Cabinet is comprised of 16 State Department Cabinet Secretaries, tasked with aligning, coordinating, and leveraging resources to maximize outcomes for children. In this capacity, her work was featured in the 2010 MIT article Government and Social Innovation as an effective model for leveraging and maximizing Federal and philanthropic funding to increase New Mexico’s economic vitality. Prior to this advisor role, Robin also served as Executive Director of the Central New Mexico Community College (CNM) Foundation. Through Robin’s leadership, CNM created the nationally recognized Center for Working Families initiative, which later evolved to become CNM Connect. The Center for Working Families initiative provides bundled services to low-income, first-generation college students to address non-academic barriers to educational success. Robin’s work garnered the CNM Foundation recognition that includes the 2007 Association of Commerce & Industry’s VIVA Award for Vision, Investment, Vitality and Action in the Community and a 2006 Ethics in Business Award.

In 2007, Robin was selected as an Annie E. Casey Foundation Fellow. Robin has been recognized locally and nationally for her work taking innovative ideas to scale and applying new tools and approaches to transform systems that serve vulnerable kids, families and communities. With a focus on measurable, results-driven, lasting improvements and outcomes, Robin has engineered, piloted, and scaled holistic, integrative, bundled service programs. She has testified before Congress on the role of financial capability, EITC, and IDA’s to promote youth and adult education, workforce and economic success, as well as alternative strategies and delivery systems to strengthen the uptake and integration of these programs. She has been recognized as a New Mexico Power Broker, a Woman of Influence, and the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce Leadership Award. She served on Governor Richardson’s Poverty Reduction Task force and worked with NM Senators Bingaman and Domenici to improve legislation on savings mobilization and EITC outreach.