Robin Rivera is an Emmy Award-winning media producer and a principal of Digital Laundry, a media production, studio and archiving services company based in New York’s East Harlem community (but now working remotely). A native of Los Angeles, she graduated from Stanford University (B.S. Mechanical Engineering) and the University of Southern California (Master of Urban and Regional Planning). While volunteering for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, she was invited to move to Lausanne, Switzerland to work for the International Olympic Committee. There, she spent three years as the English-language editor of the Olympic Movement’s monthly magazine, the Olympic Review. Robin then moved to New York in 1989
to work for ABC Sports, first as a features producer, then a programming executive. She was most recently the co-treasurer of the board of Civitas, an organization dedicated to addressing quality of life issues in East Harlem and the Upper East Side of Manhattan. From 2017 to 2020, she served on the Board of Directors of the New York Junior League. She received the NYJL’s Outstanding Volunteer and Outstanding Sustainer awards in 1998 and 2019, respectively. Having purchased their Quansoo (Chilmark) property in 2004, and having enjoyed long weekends to entire summers there, George and Robin moved to Chil-mark full-time in early 2020. Currently, Robin is also a member of the Chilmark Town Affairs Council.