About Robin

Long before I worked in the White House, I was a little girl searching for answers.

I grew up in New York City surrounded by strong personalities, incomplete stories, and family secrets. I knew from an early age that I would have to make my own way, but I also believed that if I could understand where I came from - especially the truth about my biological father - I might finally understand who I was.

That search ran alongside a career I could never have imagined as a child. For more than thirty years, I worked in American politics, government, communications, public policy, and nonprofit leadership. I worked on four presidential campaigns and in the Clinton White House, served as staff director for the Senate Democratic Technology and Communications Committee under Senator Tom Daschle, supported international public affairs and major sporting events, and became the first executive director of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! initiative.

My public life often looked confident and accomplished. My private life was more complicated. I was still reckoning with the uncertainty of my childhood, experiences of harassment and assault, and the persistent feeling that one missing truth might explain everything. 

At the same time, my husband and I were building the family we wanted, adopting our two sons from Kazakhstan and creating a home grounded in love, honesty, and belonging.

I began writing pieces of my story years before I knew how the memoir would end. DNA testing and an unexpected connection with a paternal cousin finally gave me the last chapter I had been seeking. Finding My Way grew from that discovery and from my desire to examine not only what happened to me, but how secrecy, ambition, forgiveness, and choice shaped the person I became.

Today I live in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, with my husband, our family, and our rescue dogs. I advise organizations through Wayfinder Strategies, serve my community, and continue to write about identity, family, resilience, and the choices people make to build lives of their own.

Robin F. Schepper is the award-winning author of Finding My Way: A Memoir of Family, Identity, and Political Ambition. Over a career spanning more than thirty years, she 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. Her writing explores family secrets, resilience, ambition, identity, and the search for belonging. She lives in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.