President and Managing Partner
Sullivan Robinson is President and Managing Partner of the Leadership Council for Healthy Communities Institute, LLC.
She is the former Executive Director and current Vice Chair of the Leadership Council for Healthy Communities, Inc. (LCHC). An organization of clergy leaders, medical professionals, and community leaders, LCHC has a network of partnering faith institutions with assigned health coordinators to educate, inspire and promote healthy behaviors. Prior to LCHC, Ms. Robinson had extensive executive and management experiences with community- and faith-based organizations in the District of Columbia (DC) and New York, NY.
Sullivan Robinson
In DC, she provided executive leadership for the DC Affiliate of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS (NBLCA), Trinity Development Center (TDC), and the Congress of National Black Churches (CNBC). At CNBC, a coalition of the clergy leadership of eight (8) historically Black denominations representing approximately 65,000 churches, she oversaw several national programs operating in over fifty cities. In addition, she directed a multi-million-dollar church rebuilding program following the infamous Black church burnings in primarily southern states in the late 1990s.
In New York City, she was the founding executive director of Associated Black Charities (ABC), a fundraising federation of 59 social services organizations. Under her leadership, ABC created a highly-celebrated annual “Black History Makers’ Award” presentation held at New York’s historic Carnegie Hall. She was also executive director of Opportunities Industrialization Centers (OIC), a nationally recognized employment and training program founded by the renowned Reverend Dr. Leon H. Sullivan.
She earned a Bachelor of Science Degree (Mathematics) from Hampton University, Hampton, VA, and Master of Arts Degree (Human Resources and Management) from the New School for Social Research, New York, NY. Additional studies include doctoral courses in Urban Studies at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Ms. Robinson also earned certificates in executive leadership from IBM Executive Management training program (NY), General Electric Executive Leadership program (NY), and the Fundraising School at Indiana University.
An advocate for volunteerism and community participation, she is/has been a board member of numerous civic and religious organizations.