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Tony Robinson received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, with an emphasis on the challenges of inner-city poverty and how grass-roots community organizing can address those challenges.ÌýAt CU Denver, he specialized in building connections between the resources of the university and surrounding urban communities.ÌýRobinson’s community connections over the years included:

• Serving as the former director of a HUD-funded Community Outreach Partnership Center, uniting university resources with Denver’s low-income Westside communities.
• Running for Denver City Council (At-Large)
• Serving as the co-founder of groups such as Denver’s El Centro Humanitario (an immigrant worker advocacy center) the Save Our Section 8 Low Income Tenants Organization, and the Denver Tent City Initiative (a homeless grass-roots advocacy coalition).
• Serving as a board member for Denver Jobs With Justice, the Hangout Resource Center for people lining with Brain Injuries, and the El Centro Humanitario immigrant rights center.

As a teacher, Robinson directs the CU in the Capitol legislative internship program, coordinates student research internships with a variety of community groups, teaches a study abroad summer session in South Korea, and a GIS in Political Science course teaching students to use the sophisticated computer mapping abilities of CU Denver’s Facility for Advanced Spatial Technologies as a research method.

Robinsons’ research interests include American elections, urban political economy, and political-economic mapping projects.