Board of Directors, Jon Sims Center -
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Published on: 5/1/2004
Last Visited: 5/1/2004
Amy Robinson, Executive Director
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Amy RobinsonDuring the past ten years, Amy Robinson has been a tireless advocate for queer democratic culture, insisting that artistic, political, and intellectual work are interconnected.A native of New York, Amy graduated from Oberlin College with a major in English and Creative Writing in 1987.After working as an intern at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York and for a year as a Literary Associate at the Empty Space Theater in Seattle, she moved back to the East Coast to attend the University of Pennsylvania as a William Penn Fellow.There she received the National Women's Studies Association/Naiad Press Graduate Scholarship in Lesbian Studies as well as a certificate in African Studies from Oxford University (UK).She also helped to establish the First Annual Women's Theater Festival in Philadelphia, and became involved with the Women and Theatre program of ATHE (The Association for Theatre in Higher Education), organizing several conferences bringing together academics, working artists, and practitioners.She received her doctorate in English in 1993.
In Fall 1993 Amy began a position in the English Department at Georgetown University, teaching Cultural Studies and Performance, Race & Sexuality Studies, Theater and Playwriting, and generally riling up the place.
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In 1996 Amy began her romance with San Francisco, as a Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, where she lectured extensively about what she calls "Ethics, in an age of Disappointment," including an appearance on Stanford Public Television.
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Always a jack or jillette of all trades and herself as multidisciplinary as the Jon Sims Center, Amy is delighted to have left the academy and joined the ranks of the non-profit world.
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