Robin Reineke

Overview

Robin Reineke is the co founder and executive director of the Colibri Center for Human Rights. The Colibri Center uses science and storytelling to protect the human rights of migrants on the U.S. Mexico border. Reineke's closest friends growing up in Seattle Washington were immigrants and refugees. Their painful yet hopeful stories were an inspiration that contributed to her life long commitment to human rights work. After completing her BA from Bryn Mawr College Robin received a Master's in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. A former National Science Foundation Fellow Reineke is currently a doctoral candidate in anthropology and expects to complete her Ph.D. in 2014. Before Colibri Reineke spent nearly a decade working to help families of missing migrants last seen crossing the border. Her research on immigration human rights forensic science and the U.S. Mexico border has gained international attention and has been featured in the New York Times the BBC the Los Angeles Times The Economist The Nation and in the award winning documentary film