Kelley Robinson

Kelley J. Robinson (born ) is an American community organizer and nonprofit executive who is the current president of the Human Rights Campaign. She was formerly the executive director of Planned Parenthood Action Fund.

Education Robinson received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2008. During university, she double-majored in sociology and women's and gender studies. She has also worked as a mixed martial arts fighter and a bartender.

Career Robinson started working as a political organizer for Barack Obama's presidential campaign in 2008. While at Planned Parenthood, the number of supporters increased from 6.5 million to 18 million.

Robinson became the president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) in late 2022. She is the first queer Black woman to lead the organization. In one interview, Robinson stated that HRC was planning to work towards the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act. In one of the first interviews that she gave as HRC president, to El País, Robinson addressed the rise of hate acts against LGBTQ communities. In the month of December of the year 2022, Robinson testified before Congress on the rise of anti-LGBTQ+ extremism and violence.

Robinson is a senior fellow at the Kettering Foundation, an American non-partisan research foundation.

Awards and recognition In April 2024, Robinson was included in the Time 100 list of the most influential people of the year.

Personal life Robinson married her wife, Becky George, in 2020; they raise one child together.