Kerry Robinson is executive partner for Global and National Initiatives at Leadership Roundtable and executive director of the Opus Prize Foundation. She has been with Leadership Roundtable since its inception, serving first as its founding executive director for 11 years, then as its global ambassador for four years, and now as executive partner for global and national initiatives. Robinson is a trustee of the Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities and a member of Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities. She has been an advisor to grant making foundations, charitable nonprofits, and family philanthropies since 1990. Robinson has served on many boards, committees, and task forces. She is currently the co-chair of the Faith and Giving Task Force for the Generosity Commission, and she serves on the boards of Albertus Magnus College, Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale University, the Hartford Bishops Foundation, and the International Catholic Migration Commission.
Robinson is the prize-winning author of Imagining Abundance: Fundraising, Philanthropy and a Spiritual Call to Service and is the founding editor of The Catholic Funding Guide: A Directory of Resources for Catholic Activities. Robinson has contributed chapters to five books, including “Leadership” in A Pope Francis Lexicon, edited by Cindy Wooden and Joshua McElwee. She has been a columnist for Chicago Catholic since 2017, and has a blog on spirituality called Love in Ordinary Time.
Robinson served as the director of development for Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale University and led a $75 million-dollar fundraising drive to expand and endow the Chapel's ministry and to construct a Catholic student center. Robinson co-founded ESTEEM, a national Catholic young adult leadership formation program, with Yale Catholic Chaplain, Bob Beloin, and Leadership Roundtable Founder, Geoff Boisi.
Robinson received an MAR degree from Yale Divinity School, concentrating in ethics. She is the recipient of numerous honorary doctorates and distinguished awards and has also been the inaugural speaker for several organizations’ events.
