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Devin Maverick Robins

Broadcast Journalist

Devin Maverick Robins is a journalist for Marketplace Money, a national personal finance show and part of the portfolio of Marketplace programs heard by a weekly audience of more than 9 million listeners, on 486 public radio stations.

Most recently, she was a Web Producer with LA Public Media Service, a project of Radio Bilingue where she helped build a multi-platform English language news service for a young, ethnically diverse audience in Los Angeles which launched in August 2010.

Robins began her journalism career at National Public Radio and during her tenure, she worked on several shows including "Talk of the Nation," "The Tavis Smiley Show," and "News and Notes." Her award-winning work includes producing more than 100 hours of NPR's live news coverage of the September 11th terrorist attacks, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hurricane Katrina and the last three presidential elections.

In 2009, Robins helped launch "The Michael Eric Dyson Show" and "Up Front News" on public radio.  She's also the founding Managing Producer of "The Peter Tilden Morning Show" on KABC in Los Angeles.

Robins is an endurance cyclist who's involved in fundraising for HIV/AIDS research and services including participating in an annual 585 mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

She earned a degree in journalism from San Diego State University and completed graduate fellowship programs at the University of Southern California, the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Articles

<p>Much of inland California is rural and poor, a sharp contrast with hip, upscale coastal life. Residents in the rural regions sometimes live with a high degree of pollution. Producer Devin Robins visited three women who became activists over concerns for their communities' health.</p>