Deputy Director for Employee Programs, Workplace Project
Department:Public Education and Outreach
Allyson Robinson
As the first Deputy Director for Employee Programs of the HRC Foundation’s Workplace Project, Allyson Robinson drives the design and delivery of HRC’s broad portfolio of training and curricula for corporate leadership and employee audiences to improve LGBT cultural competence and inclusion in the workplace. She first joined HRC as Associate Director of Diversity in 2008, leading the organization and its volunteer base in promoting awareness of transgender issues and ensuring all program areas demonstrated measurable commitment to transgender equality and inclusion.
A native of Scranton, Pa., Robinson is a 1994 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, where she majored in physics. After an internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory, she was commissioned as an officer in the Army and commanded PATRIOT missile units in the United States, Germany and Saudi Arabia. She also worked as a senior trainer/evaluator for NATO and as an advisor to the armed forces of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar. Robinson resigned her commission in 1999 to pursue a calling to Christian ministry. After her ordination, she served as pastor-teacher to churches in the Portuguese Azores and central Texas, focusing her ministry work focused on raising awareness of systemic poverty and organizing community-based responses to it. She earned a master of divinity degree in theology with a capstone emphasis in social justice from Baylor University in 2007.
Robinson lives with her wife and their four children in Gaithersburg, Md.