Vera Institute of Justice

Gerard Robinson is the executive director of the Center for Advancing Opportunity (CAO), a Washington, DC-based research and education initiative created by a partnership with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, the Charles Koch Foundation, and Koch Industries. The mission of CAO is to develop evidence-based solutions to the most pressing education, criminal justice, and economic mobility issues in fragile communities throughout the United States by working with faculty and students at historically black colleges and universities and other postsecondary institutions.

Prior to CAO, Robinson worked as a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.