Robbin Pott Gonzalez, J.D., M.P.P.
Research Area Specialist, Senior
Project Manager, Child Care and Education Archives
- Phone: 734-615-4592
- Email: rpgonzal@umich.edu
Major Responsibilities
Robbin Gonzalez manages the Child Care and Early Education Research Connections project and the Prek-3rd Data Resource Center. She also manages the National Collegiate Athletic Association project.
Brief Biography
She received her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School and her master's in public policy from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan.
She developed her interest in children's issues while working on a longitudinal epidemiological study at Northwestern University that assessed the service needs of juvenile offenders. As a graduate student, she was a research associate on a University of Michigan School of Social Work study on recruitment and retention issues for child welfare professionals and served as guardian ad litem for children in Child Protection Services at the Child Advocacy Law Clinic.
Journal Articles
Gonzalez, Robbin P. (2006). The Rights of Putative Fathers to Their Infant Children in Contested Adoptions: Strengthening State Laws that Currently Deny Adequate Protection, Michigan Journal of Gender & Law, 13(39).
Gonzalez, Robbin P., Kathleen C. Faller, Robert M. Ortega, & John Tropman. (2009). Exit Interviews with Departed Child Welfare Workers: Preliminary Findings, Journal of Public Child Welfare, 3(1), 40-63.
Vandervort, Frank E., Robbin P. Gonzalez, & Kathleen C. Faller. (2008). Legal Ethics and High Child Welfare Worker Turnover: An Unexplored Connection, Children and Youth Services Review, 30, 546-63.
