Gerard Robinson

Gerard Robinson is a Professor of Practice in Public Policy and Law at UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, and has a joint appointment at UVA Law School. His areas of expertise are K-12 and higher education, criminal justice reform, race in American institutions and the role of nonprofit organizations in civil society. Examples of his scholarship include two co-edited books, Education for Liberation: The Politics of Promise and Reform Inside and Beyond America’s Prisons (2019) and Education Savings Accounts: The New Frontier in School Choice (2017), as well as an essay published in the Virginia Law Review (2023) and University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Social Change (2022).

He has been published or quoted in CNN Opinion, Forbes, Newsweek, The Hill, The New York Times, The Washington Examiner, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and U.S. News & World Report. Between 2020-23, Robinson co-hosted the popular “Learning Curve Podcast” with Dr. Cara Candal, through which they interviewed university professors, think tank scholars, entrepreneurs, elected officials, public and private sector leaders, and 13 Pulitzer Prize winners.

Robinson, a first-generation college graduate, earned an Ed.M. from Harvard University, a B.A. from Howard University and an A.A. from El Camino Community College. He is married and has three daughters.

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