Education
Suffolk University (2007-2008)
M.Ed Foundations of Education with Higher Education Administration Emphasis (Completion Summer 2008)
Thesis Project: The Lawrence King Initiative: A Queer Leadership Curriculum
Southern Illinois University (1999-2000)
Graduate Studies in Gender, Psychology, and Sports
Murray State University (1995-1996)
Graduate Studies in Guidance and Counseling, emphasis in Adolescence
Western Kentucky University (1990-1995)
B.A., Psychology; emphasis in Adolescent Psychology and Sports
Work Experience
Columbia University (2008-Present)
Assistant Director Office of Multicultural Affairs
Manager LGBTQ Advising & Programming
Suffolk University (2007-2008)
Diversity Services
Graduate Assistant
Harvard University (2006-2007)
Division of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Harvard Medical School; Continuing Medical Education
Newbury College, Boston, MA (2005-2006)
Assistant Athletic Director; Head Women’s Basketball Coach
Senior Women’s Administrator; Director of Sports Information
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (2004-2005)
Head Women’s Basketball Coach; Assistant Sports Information Director
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2002-2004)
Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach
Morehead State University (2001-2002)
Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach
Southern Illinois University (1996-2001)
Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach
Murray State University (1995-1996)
Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach
Warren Central High School (1994-1995)
Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach
Courses Taught
Morehead State University (2001-2002)
Fundamentals of Basketball
Related Experience
Scholarship recipient, Primer on Empirical Research on Sexual Orientation, Williams Institute, University of California Los Angeles (2008)
Scholarship recipient, The Summer Institute at The National Sexuality Resource Center, San Francisco State University (2008)
Affiliate, It Takes a Team! Educational program through The Women’s Sports
Foundation; Director, Pat Griffin (2005-present)
Affiliate, National Center For Lesbian Rights; Director, Helen Carroll (2004-present)
Participant, Committee on Diversity, Recruitment, and Retention, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (2005)
Director, Women’s Basketball Community Service Program (2002-2004)
Director, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Women’s Basketball Summer Youth
Camp (2004)
Director, Morehead State University Women’s Basketball Summer Youth Camp (2002)
Director, Southern Illinois University Women’s Basketball Summer Youth Camp
(1999-2001)
Program Coordinator, summer youth camp; Bowling Green Parks & Recreation Center
(1995)
Program Counselor, Western Kentucky University Top-Up Program (1992)
Service & Presentations
Representative, Office of Diversity Services, Suffolk University summer 2008 orientation for transfer students, first year students, and parents.
Participant, Seeking Common Ground in Athletics: A Conversation Among Lesbians, Christians and Lesbian Christians, WBCA National Convention, Tampa, FL (2008)
Guest Appearance, ESPN’s “Outside the Lines: The Whispers.” Examination of homophobia and negative recruiting in Women’s Basketball (2008)
Panel Organizer, Queer Voices of Color, Suffolk University, February (2008)
Co-Presenter with Dr. Pat Griffin, Homophobia in Sports: A National and Personal Perspective, Pennsylvania State University, (February 28-29, 2008)
Guest Appearance, BloomingOUT Public Radio, Bloomington, IN (2008)
Co-Presenter, Public Memory & Ethnicity Conference, Lewis & Clark College
"Miscegenations" (2007)
Co-Presenter, Imagining America National Conference, Syracuse University "Miscegenations" (2007)
Chair, Homophobia: A Barrier to Equality in Women’s Basketball. Forthcoming panel discussion at 2007 NCAA Women’s Basketball Coaches Association National Convention
Sex & Sexual Orientation Discrimination Symposium panel participant, Ithaca College
(2006)
It Takes A Team! and National Center for Lesbian Rights booth representative, Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Convention in conjunction with the NCAA Women’s Final Four (2006)
National Girls in Sports Day, Co-Organizer MCLA (2005)
National Center for Lesbian Rights representative; Gender PAC conference in
Washington D.C. (2004)
Panel participant on homophobia and athletics at the National Women’s Studies
Association Conference (2004)
Panel participant for National Coming Out Week (homophobia and athletics) at
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2003)
National Girls in Sports Day, Co-Organizer UW-Milwaukee (2003)
Equality Knocks (team leader) campaign for civil marriage in Wisconsin (2003-2004)
Police academy educator on LGBT issues with Milwaukee Community LGBT Center
(2003-2004)
Annual participant and volunteer in annual Milwaukee, WI AIDS walk (2003-2004)
Awards and Achievements
Horizon League Community Service Award; UW-Milwaukee Women’s Basketball (2004)
Athletic Achievement Scholarship, Western Kentucky University (1990-1995)
NCAA Final Four National Runner-Up (1991-1992)
Recognition for outstanding counselor at Top Up camp at WKU (1992)
Publications
Book Chapter
Robinson, Lea.
“Love and Basketball.” Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces. Ed. Michelle Sewell. Washington, D.C.: GirlChild Press, 2006. 207-209.
Forthcoming
Robinson, Lea and Pat Griffin, Camille O'Bryant, and Jillian R. Ross. "3 to 1: Four Women Navigating the Intersections of Racism, Sexism, Homophobia and Heterosexism in Intercollegiate Sport."
Colors of the Rainbow: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender People of Color in the Academy. Eds. Vernon A. Wall, and Jamie Washington.
Robinson, Lea and Elizabeth Whitney. "The 'T' in LGBT: Communities of Color and Gender Identity."
Colors of the Rainbow: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender People of Color in the Academy. Eds. Vernon A. Wall, and Jamie Washington.
Affiliations
Black Coaches Association (2004-present)
Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (1996-present)