Cynthia Robbins

Robbins currently serves as a consultant to TimeBanks USA, as co-team leader with Dr. Edgar Cahn, of a Kellogg-funded Civil Rights Initiative designed to address the consequences of racism in many social service systems including juvenile justice and foster care. For too long, governments have evaded culpability for chronic and severe racial disparities. The Initiative team is developing a policy change and advocacy strategy designed to ignite communities of traditional disadvantage to demand  that government officials use knowledge of what works to co-produce brighter futures filled with opportunity
At the end of last summer, Robbins left the role of Executive Director of See Forever Foundation (SFF) and Maya Angelou Public Charter School (MAPCS). First as managing and then executive director, she led with a committed focus on the SFF/MAPCS mission of creating learning communities that provide low income Washington, DC students, particularly those who have not succeeded in traditional schools, a viable chance to reach their potential.  The school boasted graduation and college enrollment rates of close to 80% during her tenure.  Cynthia guided See Forever and Maya Angelou through a period of substantial growth. In less than four and half years, SFF/MAPCS grew from a one high school campus program for about eighty (80) students to five campuses serving 600 students last fall. The program focus also expanded adding a second high school campus, a middle school and two campuses serving young people in the delinquency system, one at the youth facility for secure confinement, Oak Hill, and the other at a Transition Center for youth upon release.
Robbins has experience as a civil rights and criminal defense attorney, adjunct professor of juvenile law, consultant and nonprofit leader dedicated to advocacy, education, leadership support and organizational development. Robbins has a BA from Harvard University and a JD from Stanford Law School.
She is currently an active board member of the Phelps Stokes Fund, the People’s Congregational Church Council and Scholarship Committee, the historic Lincoln Theatre on U Street, and former Chair of the Board of the DC Public Defender Service and member of the board of DC Vote, an organization seeking voting representation in Congress for DC residents.

Robbins currently serves as a consultant to TimeBanks USA, as co-team leader with Dr. Edgar Cahn, of a Kellogg-funded Civil Rights Initiative designed to address the consequences of racism in many social service systems including juvenile justice and foster care. For too long, governments have evaded culpability for chronic and severe racial disparities. The Initiative team is developing a policy change and advocacy strategy designed to ignite communities of traditional disadvantage to demand  that government officials use knowledge of what works to co-produce brighter futures filled with opportunity

At the end of last summer, Robbins left the role of Executive Director of See Forever Foundation (SFF) and Maya Angelou Public Charter School (MAPCS). First as managing and then executive director, she led with a committed focus on the SFF/MAPCS mission of creating learning communities that provide low income Washington, DC students, particularly those who have not succeeded in traditional schools, a viable chance to reach their potential.  The school boasted graduation and college enrollment rates of close to 80% during her tenure.  Cynthia guided See Forever and Maya Angelou through a period of substantial growth. In less than four and half years, SFF/MAPCS grew from a one high school campus program for about eighty (80) students to five campuses serving 600 students last fall. The program focus also expanded adding a second high school campus, a middle school and two campuses serving young people in the delinquency system, one at the youth facility for secure confinement, Oak Hill, and the other at a Transition Center for youth upon release.

Robbins has experience as a civil rights and criminal defense attorney, adjunct professor of juvenile law, consultant and nonprofit leader dedicated to advocacy, education, leadership support and organizational development. Robbins has a BA from Harvard University and a JD from Stanford Law School.

She is currently an active board member of the Phelps Stokes Fund, the People’s Congregational Church Council and Scholarship Committee, the historic Lincoln Theatre on U Street, and former Chair of the Board of the DC Public Defender Service and member of the board of DC Vote, an organization seeking voting representation in Congress for DC residents.