Robin completed her undergraduate nursing studies at California State University at Los Angeles in 1979. She completed the Master in Nursing in a Primary Care Nurse Practitioner program at University of California at Los Angeles in 1984. Her graduate studies included thesis development related to domestic violence. She later became Board Certified as a Reproductive, Endocrinology and infertility Nurse. She completed a Masters in Science of Counseling at Northwest Nazarene University in 2011 with special emphasis in Grief, Trauma and Crisis. Graduate studies included research implementing Horticultural Therapy to Improve Executive Function in survivors of trauma. She obtained a Post Masters MSN as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner from Gonzaga University in 2012. She obtained a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) in 2017 from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Her doctoral research addressed Caregiver Stress Reduction using Gardening for those caring for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.