Robyn Freedner-Maguire
As the Senior Director of Communications and Culture Change, Robyn works across teams to strengthen our internal systems, measure the outcomes that matter most, and uncover powerful opportunities for Outright’s mission to ripple out and shape a more just and affirming world.
As a part of the Senior Leadership team, Robyn shares in the responsibility for ensuring that our Strategic Plan, Theory of Change, and Queer Ethic and Guiding Principles are aligned in the implementation of strategies to accomplish our vision and mission. Robyn supports Outright’s Equity team that advances LGBTQ+ youth liberation by amplifying youth voices and equipping allied adults to foster a culture where all youth are affirmed and supported.
Robyn has spent her life championing big causes. Her passion for activism ignited when she was a teenager after the tragedy of Matthew Shepard in 1998, a formative event in her younger years. Raised in Texas and shaped by her experiences navigating the world as a queer youth raised in a southern refinery town, she thrives on elevating voices unknown and doing whatever she can for justice to win.
Robyn began a career in advocacy in Massachusetts with MassEquality, protecting marriage rights for same-sex couples as a community organizer. She later moved to Vermont, serving as Field Director for Vermont Freedom to Marry, helping make Vermont the first state to legislate marriage equality. Drawing on her expertise in grassroots advocacy, community organizing, and policy change, Robyn became the inaugural campaign director for Let’s Grow Kids, launching a statewide early childhood movement that engaged over 17,000 Vermonters in the fight for high-quality, affordable childcare.
She later founded RFM Strategies to help nonprofits turn their missions into transformative action. In her personal advocacy, she worked to establish a mental health crisis response program in Burlington, Vermont, inspired by the CAHOOTS model while continuing to champion systemic change at the statehouse.
Although Robyn earned her journalism degree from the University of Houston, she says her most important lessons came from “the school of hard knocks.” She’s been happily married and is the proud parent of three amazing humans. You’ll find Robyn hanging with her kids, listening to a podcast while working in the yard, rewatching Parks and Rec, or traveling. Driven by a deep belief in justice and equity, Robyn is all in—for the work, youth, and future.
