Over the past ten years, Ukraine has become a place that she loves and where there’s love for her. It has an unshakeable death grip on Robin’s heart, which makes Ukraine’s fight her fight, too.
She first became involved in Ukrainian matters during the 2013-2014 Revolution of Dignity, when she served as an English-language editor for what is now Euromaidan Press. After russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in March 2014, she turned her attention to helping supply Ukraine’s military in a manner very similar to what UFL does now: find out what they need, buy it, and get it to them so they can keep fighting.
An inveterate helper-around-the-edges, when she’s not working on UFL matters, she can usually be found helping other Ukrainian and Ukraine-oriented initiatives with whatever she can, from procurement to stuffing IFAKs to setting up auctions to loading sea containers to subtitling documentaries.
She’s thankful to outgoing president Steven Watford for his service to UFL; thankful for the opportunity to work with the rest of the Ukraine Front Line team to make UFL the most effective organization it can possibly be; and, above all, thankful to all the donors who make it possible for us to do what we do in the first place: find out what they need, buy it, and get it to them so they can keep fighting.
Slava Ukraini!