Catherine Durkin Robinson
Catherine Durkin Robinson participated in movements that helped to end apartheid and cosmetic testing on animals, start community recycling, fund Sinn Fein and NORAID, restore voting rights to felons, shut down animal exploitation at circuses, rodeos and Sea World, protect a woman’s right to choose, pass common sense gun laws and organize runs for the American Heart Association and American Cancer Society. She is a lifelong progressive who led the movement in Florida for education equity.
She taught high school social studies for eight years, penned a syndicated column in Creative Loafing and The Tampa Tribune for almost a decade and raised two amazing young men into adulthood.
Catherine has visited every state in the U.S. except North Dakota, which doesn’t really count, and more than a few foreign countries. She went cliff diving in Hawaii, climbed Masada in Israel, swam in the Red Sea, drank whiskey in Ireland, and lived for a time in Colorado Springs, Boston, Chicago, South Tampa and Lutz.
She wrote jokes repeated on The Tonight Show and a book that sold a few dozen copies. Beat that!
She ran the Boston Marathon and witnessed a total eclipse of the sun.
These days, she roams the world and works hard for the good of all. In her spare time, she runs, cycles and looks for missing socks.
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What are you working on next?
I'm a political activist so there's always something brewing - a cause that needs organizing around, a candidate that needs help with speeches, or a movement in needs of a snarky boost. Determined to leave behind a better world than what was left behind for me.
Who are your favorite authors?
Cheryl Strayed, Harper Lee, Gloria Steinem, Harold Kushner, Christopher Hitchens
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