Dr. Renita Robinson
EdD | Senior Director of Client Services
Visionary • Grounded • Transformational
Dr. Renita Robinson brings over three decades of trauma-informed leadership, survivor advocacy, and systems-level strategy to her role as Senior Director of Client Services at We All Rise. She oversees all direct service programming, guiding teams across advocacy, mental health, helpline coordination, and crisis response with deep care and cultural specificity. A nationally recognized speaker, educator, and organizational founder, Dr. Robinson’s work bridges individual healing with institutional change. Her leadership is rooted in justice, shaped by lived experience, and driven by the belief that systems can—and must—transform when survivors are centered.
Dr. Renita's Story
Renita Robinson (she/her), EdD is the current Senior Director of Client Services at We All Rise African American Resource Center and wears various hats outside of work: President and Founder of both the Midwest Survivor Institute, and Teach 'Em to Fish, LLC both organizations focused on providing education and support to organizations and entities committed to growth and change. Dr. Robinson has worked with victims and survivors of trauma for over 33 years. She started leading girl groups in her first teaching job and has sponsored and led dozens of groups across the USA. She has designed hundreds of presentations, delivered dozens of keynote addresses and been the director of 12 statewide conferences in four states.
Dr. Robinson is the former Vice President of Health Equity at Prevea Health. She couples an understanding of social determinants of health with three decades of social justice work and has held roles including former: Chief Executive Officer of the YWCA Greater Green Bay; Sixth-12th grade English and social studies teacher; adjunct professor of three mid-west universities; director of the internationally respected Domestic Abuse Intervention Program (DAIP)’s Family Visitation Center; Family Shelter Director in a 400+ bed homeless shelter; Creator of the MIRROR Project—a non-medical recovery program serving women from the BIPOC community; Executive Director of the largest domestic and sexual violence service provider in southern Minnesota--the Committee Against Domestic Abuse (CADA); she has influenced policy related to services for a range of populations; was formerly licensed as a graduate social worker; served as a middle school teacher; has been an advocate for survivors; is a former olympic caliber athlete: A National NCAA National Champion; a multi-year Big 8 Scholar Athlete; 1988 Olympic Trials Exhibition winner: honored as the 1997 Co-Teacher of the Year by Boston's Anti-Defamation League. And finally, her doctoral degree is in Teaching and Learning from the University of Minnesota, Duluth.