Robin King is a Senior Lecturer with the Writing Program at UC Santa Cruz, and she serves as a teaching fellow for multiple campus programs, including The Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS), Oakes College, and the Educational Opportunity Programs/Hispanic Serving Institute (EOP/HSI).
Robin is a winner of the UC Santa Cruz Excellence in Teaching Award, and she is the current DEI Coordinator for the Writing Program. As a faculty member at UC Santa Cruz since 1998, she has taught courses that emphasize research-minded assignments for students to investigate social (in)justice, emotional intelligence, and the relationship between culture and trauma, with an emphasis on marginalized voices.
Robin is the co-developer of the CARA food politic series of courses for Oakes College, which emphasizes issues of social justice within food systems and showcases the extensive agricultural activity at UC Santa Cruz.
She completed her undergraduate and graduate degrees at UC San Diego, where she studied film and video. For her MFA degree she produced a media project about a man who wrote poetry and labor songs for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in Arkansas during the 1940s. After graduate school Robin worked in the early years of the cable television industry as a channel coordinator and video producer for Southwestern Cable TV in San Diego and as a programming coordinator for Viacom Cable TV headquarters in Pleasanton, California.