Shane Robinson, MA

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Areas of Expertise:

• Nonprofit management
• Government affairs
• Day-to-day management of organizational processes

Shane Robinson joined Coulter in April 2008 as an associate and manager of association services for the Emergency Department Practice Management Association. He is currently a senior associate and executive director of the Ehlers-Danlos National Foundation (EDNF).

Prior to his time with Coulter, Robinson worked for a variety of nonprofits around the globe in the health, education, and environment sectors. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia from 2002 to 2005.

In the fall of 2010 Robinson was elected to a four-year term in the Maryland House of Delegates representing Maryland's 39th legislative district.

Robinson earned undergraduate degrees in Biology and Spanish at the University of Nevada, Reno, and a graduate degree in sustainable development at the SIT Graduate Institute in Brattleboro, Vermont.

On weekends Robinson teaches scuba at the Atlantic Edge Dive Center, and ski patrols at Whitetail ski resort. He also serves as president of Amigos de Iracambi, US, which supports the Iracambi Atlantic Rainforest Research and Conservation Center located in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Shane also enjoys running, skiing and travel.

Robinson resides in Montgomery Village, Maryland with his wife, Mary, and his son, Gordon.

Now, here's the backstory on Shane:

• Hometown: Montgomery Village, MD.
• Parents:  Dad is a professor at the University of Nevada, Reno; Mom runs the ESL program for the local school district.
• Favorite TV shows as a kid: MacGyver and The Cosby Show.
• Spent my days as a youth: Lots of bike riding and baseball.
• Thing I hate to admit, even to myself: I hate to admit that I used Google to find ideas for answers to this question.
• Hobbies: I love scuba diving and skiing. Now that I live in the D.C. area again I don't ski nearly as much as I did back in college, but I still manage to dive most weekends. Yes, you really can live in D.C. and still dive. Who knew?
• First "paycheck" job: I worked as a wildland firefighter with the U.S. Forest Service each summer during college. It was a lot of fun when there were actual fires! When there weren't any fires we just maintained trails, fixed fences, and washed the fire engines over, and over, and over again.
• First car: A 1984 Chevy Citation. I truly loved that car, but apparently nobody else did because Chevrolet stopped making them in 1985.
• First job after college: I applied for the Peace Corps during my last semester in college. While I waited for my application to get processed I worked as a Bellhop at the Royal St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans. I'm your guy if you have bags that need carrying.
• Thing you would most likely learn about me in the first five minutes of conversation:  I'm warm and enthusiastic. I like people and ideas. My glasses are usually bent or smudged or both.
• Myers-Briggs Type: ENFP
• Personal quote: "Be the change you want to see in the world." -Mahatma Gandhi
  "I like turtles." –A kid on YouTube
• Perfect happiness is: Diving a tropical reef with my wife, and then watching the sun go down on the beach (also with my wife).
• If I had to do it all over again: I would essentially do it all over again, but with a few minor changes that mostly involve early investments in certain tech firms.