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Ann Robinson (she/her/hers)

Founding Director, Mahony Center for Gifted Education
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Arkansas

Dr. Ann Robinson, Distinguished Professor, is the Founding Director of the Jodie Mahony Center for Gifted Education at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. She is a past president of the National Association for Gifted Children and a former editor of the Gifted Child Quarterly. Ann has been honored by NAGC as Early Scholar, Early Leader, Distinguished Scholar and for Distinguished Service and by Purdue University with the Alumni Award of Distinction for the College of Education. She has received over $25 million dollars in external funding to support services for children and teachers and for research projects on best practices in gifted education. Her most recent project funded through the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Program is STEM+C2--an early grades school-based intervention focused on engineering, computer science, and creativity.

Ann is a passionate reader of biographies and developed the Blueprints for Biography series for teachers who implement biography in their classrooms. The most recent innovation for the Blueprints for Biography series is the development, content validation, and field testing of the Biography Information and Opinion Survey (BIOS), a classroom-friendly assessment, teachers can use to document students' understanding and enjoyment of biography.

She travels widely in North America, Europe and Australasia to advocate for opportunities for children, teachers, and schools.

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