Sue Robinson

Sue Robinson is responsible for public affairs, media relations, publications, external communications, alumni relations and event planning for the School. She directs the Jepson Leadership Forum, administers the school's leader-in-residence program and coordinates programs and partnerships on- and off-campus. She represents the School on the Communications and Marketing Committee and oversees the School's Web site.

She has experience in organizational and program development. She was project manager for the launch of Connect Richmond in 2001, served on the Richmond Quest Committee and planned and oversaw the School's 10th anniversary events in 2003 and 2004. During 2005-06, as operations manager for The Connect Network, she oversaw execution and implementation, including staffing and design of an expanded, updated and more technically sophisticated Connect Network. The Connect project has expanded to the Northern Neck region with Connect Rappahannock.

In leadership-related work, she served on the steering committee for LEAD VIRGINIA, and helped found the Virginia Leadership Association, served on the Virginia Women's Leadership Project steering committee and, as a board member for Leadership Metro Richmond, chaired its development committee, its programs and public relations committees. 

Before joining the staff in 1998, she was in print communications management. She led creative teams, wrote business plans, managed budgets, engineered start-ups of numerous publications, and taught workshops and seminars on editing, writing, ethics and libel, literary journalism and citizen understanding of public issues.

Having spent most of her career as a newspaper and magazine writer and editor, Robinson has had thousands of articles published. Honors include a 1987 Pulitzer Prize nomination, Virginia Press Association Best in Show awards, numerous writing and editing awards from the North Carolina Press Association, North Carolina Press Club, Virginia Press Association, National Federation of Press Women and others. Recent awards include: 2002 National Press Women awards for Jepson advertising campaigns; 2003 Grand and Merit awards for Jepson publications from the Community Leadership Association. She has served as contributing editor of several publications.

She has participated in professional education programs at the Poynter Institute, the American Press Institute, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Columbia University, and the Pew Center for the People and the Press. She holds a bachelor's degree with majors in mass communications and political science from Emory & Henry College and has taken graduate courses in mass communications at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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