Finding My Way: A Memoir of Family, Identity, and Political Ambition
A life shaped by family secrets. A journey towards truth, identity and belonging.
Awards
2024 Gold Medal IPPY Winner
2023 Finalist for the National Indie Excellence Awards
2024 Gold Medal IPPY Winner
National Independent Book Publishers (Memoir category)
2024 Gold Medal EVVY Winner
2023 Finalist for the National Indie Excellence Awards
2024 Gold Medal IPPY Winner
Colorado Independent Book Publishers Association (Memoir category)
2023 Finalist for the National Indie Excellence Awards
2023 Finalist for the National Indie Excellence Awards
2023 Finalist for the National Indie Excellence Awards
(New Non-Fiction category)
Some journeys begin with a destination
Mine began with a question: Who am I?
Raised between a glamorous Pan Am flight attendant mother and a formidable German immigrant grandmother who guarded painful secrets, I learned early how to navigate uncertainty and make my own way. As I built a career in politics, one question remained unresolved: the identity of the father I had never known.
MEET Robin
Long before I worked in the White House, I was a little girl searching for answers.
For more than thirty years, I worked in American politics, public service, communications, and policy. I worked on four presidential campaigns, served in the Clinton White House and the United States Senate, and became the first executive director of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! initiative. My award-winning memoir reveals the private story behind that public career: a lifelong search for family, truth, and belonging.
SPEAKING AND BOOK CLUBS
Bring the conversation to your organization, book club or event
I am available for paid keynotes, featured conversations, moderated interviews, panels, workshops, and selected book-club appearances - in person or virtually - on memoir, identity, resilience, women in public life, family secrets, leadership, and the courage to tell the truth about our own lives.