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BIOGRAPHY:  Rita Hubbard-Robinson

Rita is a graduate of the University at Buffalo Law School and received a Jurisdoctor Degree. She completed undergraduate work at the State University at Binghamton, Harpur College where she earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree majoring in history. She is currently the Executive Director of the Commission on Citizens' Rights and Community Relations for the City of Buffalo and has held this position since 2000. In this position she is responsible for the administration of the human rights commission, an eleven-member group of volunteers. She previously served as the Executive Director of Preventionfocus, Inc., a community-based agency that served more than 20,000 constituents, including parents, women, adolescents and children.

Prior to Preventionfocus, Rita held positions as the Project Director of the University at Buffalo School, College, University Partnership Program; Associate Director of the University at Buffalo Liberty Partnership Program; Executive Director of the New York State Assembly, Urban Revitalization Task Force; Community Educator and Instructor at the University at Buffalo Institute for CBO Education and Training; Academic Coordinator at the University at Buffalo, Educational Opportunity Program; and Administrative Assistant at the University at Buffalo Learning Center.

Rita is an active community volunteer serving as a member of the Resource Council; Chair, Human Development Committee of the Fruitbelt Task Force; Board Member of the Survivor's Break the Silence; and Langston Hughes Cultural Institute, Development Team member. Past memberships include: Parent Member of the Olmsted School-Based Management Team; Coordinator of Concerned Citizen's Against Violence Coalition; Board member of Housing Assistance Center; the Langston Hughes Cultural Institute; Bethel Head Start and Special Admission Committee, Faculty of Law and Jurisprudence. She also served as the coordinator of the Issues Convention, Uplifting African American Male Youth in 1989 and was an advisor/trainer for the Parent's Committee for an Effective Education.

She is a recipient of the YWCA Executive Award, June 2000; Who's Who Among Business Executives and Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. She has partnered with numerous community groups and organizations, e.g., the Sister to Sister Conference for teenage girls, to promote community betterment and empowerment of young people.