Robin Bronk
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Robin Bronk is Chief Executive Officer of The Creative Coalition—the leading national, nonprofit, nonpartisan social and public advocacy organization of the arts and entertainment industry. As CEO, Bronk is dedicated to educating, mobilizing, and activating the entertainment industry and arts community on issues of public importance, particularly the First Amendment, arts advocacy, arts in education, and media literacy. Since being appointed to the position in April 2010, she has exponentially grown The Creative Coalition’s operating budget by designing and instituting corporate sponsorship programs and cause marketing opportunities.

Bronk created the Spotlight Initiative, a division of The Creative Coalition that produces and supports films with messages important to the domestic and global agendas. Through The Creative Coalition's Spotlight Initiative, Bronk has created partnerships with the leading independent film distributors and producers including HBO, Weinstein Company, Oscilloscope, Focus Features, Samuel Goldwyn Films, Paladin, Participant, Baltimore Films, Abramorama, Incognito, Original Media and Roadside Attractions, among others.

Under her leadership, The Creative Coalition signature programs include the New York Business Leader Task Force on Runaway Production, Moviemaker Mentors, Teachers Making a Difference, the Spotlight Awards, Stand Up For Class Mentors, Capitol Hill Leaders Advisory Council, The Creative Coalition’s Inaugural Ball, Reel Life Vs. Real Life Series, Seconding the First Dialogues, Parents Advisory Council for TV Watch, and Voices of Impact.

Bronk joined The Creative Coalition in July 1998 as the organization’s Executive Director and during her tenure has taken the nonprofit from a New York-based entity to a national organization with several satellite offices. Headquartered in New York City, The Creative Coalition has a presence in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, DC.

She is an author and public speaker and most recently produced the feature film airing on Showtime, Poliwood, directed by Academy Award-winner Barry Levinson. She currently is producing a documentary on obesity, also with Mr. Levinson. Bronk serves as spokesperson for The Creative Coalition and is a frequent speaker and communicator on the role of the entertainment industry in public advocacy campaigns. She has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, People, Boston Globe, The Washington Post; and has been a guest of “The O’Reilly Factor”, “Hardball”, “Scarborough Country”, as well as CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, NPR, PBS, New York 1 and other broadcast outlets as well as a frequent contributor to The Huffington Post.

She was selected to be a participant in the 2010 and 2011 Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Conferences. She is the recipient of the 2011 Gracie Award for producing Watch What You Watch, a PSA campaign for girls and body image. Bronk received the 2010 Artivist Award for her leadership in the arts and activism. She has edited two books, “Art & Soul” (Hachette Fillapachi) and “If You Had Five Minutes With the President” (Harper Collins). Bronk also pens a weekly "Five Minutes..." column for The Hill newspaper. This summer, Ms. Bronk will begin hosting a weekly segment on independent film for New York City’s leading radio station, WBAI-FM.

Bronk is a seasoned Capitol Hill strategist and advocate. She has represented The Creative Coalition at numerous Congressional Hearings, and represented the organization and its legislative agenda before Members of Congress and the White House.

Prior to her appointment, Bronk served as Vice President, Corporate Community Strategies, for APCO Worldwide, an independently owned global communication consultancy with offices in major cities throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Her clients included corporations, governments, industry associations and nonprofit organizations. Her areas of client services included corporate and internal communication; crisis management; issue management; government relations; media relations; coalition building; corporate social responsibility and online communication. She also served as the Director of Cause Celeb, an APCO division that matches celebrities and entertainment leaders with national causes and issues of importance.

Bronk played a leading role in APCO’s work with the MCI Foundation. As an on-loan executive, she served as the interim director of the foundation, managing its multi-million dollar philanthropic grant-making program. Besides MCI, Bronk’s clients also included the ASCAP Leiber & Stoller Music Scholarship Fund, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the National Geographic Society, the Recording Industry Association of America, National Council of Jewish Women and American Forest Foundation.

Prior to joining APCO, Bronk worked for ABC News, served as a program coordinator for a weekly education series that aired on C-SPAN and worked as a program instructor of the Close Up Foundation.

Bronk serves on the New York Cultural Task Force, is a board member of The White House Project, The Close Up Foundation, Carmel Art & Film Festival, Gold Coast International Film Festival and Young Playwrights Inc., and is a member of the Public Relations Society of America and Women of Washington. She has won numerous awards and honors for her public affairs work.

Bronk received her Bachelor of Arts from Pennsylvania State University.

Blog Entries by Robin Bronk

Cuts to Arts Education Would Shortchange Our Children

25 Comments | Posted March 13, 2012 | 12:25 PM

Budget pressures are forcing school boards across the country to slash spending and cut programs central to a child's education. Later today, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) -- the second largest school system in the nation -- is set to revisit a plan that includes devastating...

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Arresting Filmmakers... in America?

0 Comments | Posted February 2, 2012 | 1:30 PM

Yesterday, Academy Award-nominated documentarian Josh Fox was arrested by U.S. Capitol police while trying to film a public Congressional Hearing. Isn't this the kind of chilling free speech episode we Americans condemn when it happens in other countries?

The U.S. House Science Committee's Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment...

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Art & Soul: Celebrating the American Legacy of the Arts -- and Ensuring Its Survival

0 Comments | Posted October 28, 2011 | 11:00 AM

With political activism dominating the headlines in both the US and abroad, it's worth noting the group of actors who, 25 years ago, boarded a train from New York to Washington, DC in an attempt to save the nearly extinct National Endowment for the Arts. During that journey, Christopher Reeve,...

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To Stop Bullying, All Must Get Involved

0 Comments | Posted June 22, 2011 | 10:05 AM

Two years ago, a 16-year-old San Clemente, California high school student committed suicide after enduring relentless bullying at the hands of four teenage boys.

Earlier this year, a 14-year-old Loveland, Colorado middle school student also took her own life after reportedly enduring sustained harassment.

These cases represent the extreme impact...

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Stimulate the Arts and Keep American Strong

0 Comments | Posted February 6, 2009 | 2:13 PM

In these times of economic crisis, it seems only rational that we should look back at our history to review what works if we want to create jobs and secure a strong economic legacy for future generations.

When faced with a collapsing economy, President Franklin Roosevelt tried to put...

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We Second the First

0 Comments | Posted June 24, 2005 | 12:52 AM

Freedom of Artistic Expression is currently under attack in Congress under the terms of the "Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act." Individual Americans could be personally fined a half million dollars -- without a warning -- for each violation of the Federal Communications Commission's vague broadcast decency standard.

Although termed "performer fines,"...

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