Robin Templeton

Board Member

Robin Templeton is the Founder and President of Robin Templeton Consulting, Inc. Robin lives in Brooklyn, New York with her son Truth Blain Templeton and is from Pineville, Louisiana. She is the recipient of a Chancellor’s Doctoral Fellowship in the Sociology Department of the City University of New York’s Graduate Center and holds a master’s degree from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. Previously she has served in leadership positions with the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Right to Vote (a national campaign to restore voting rights for people with felony convictions), and the Petra Foundation. She was a founding member of the steering committee of Critical Resistance and organizations for which she has consulted include the San Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership, Drug Policy Alliance, the Leading Edge Fund Fellowship, Black Lives Matter, and the Black Organizing Project. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, Salon, and The Huffington Post as well as several anthologies including The Handbook of Public Pedagogy. In addition to serving on VOTE’s board, she serves on the boards of directors of the Youth Justice Funding Collaborative and Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children. Her late husband was Michael Blain, a formerly incarcerated organizer who worked closely with Norris Henderson and other FIP leaders of the criminal justice reform movement.