Robyn Freedner-Maguire
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.
As Outright’s Director of Communications, she ensures that the organization’s work speaks with authenticity and heart. Storytelling drives everything she does because nothing moves people like real voices and real stories.
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.
