• Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University

Robin Lin Miller, PhD is Professor of Psychology, director of doctoral training in ecological-community psychology, and associate director of training in program evaluation at Michigan State University. She served as lead evaluation specialist for Gay Men's Health Crisis in the early years of the HIV epidemic and established its first Department of Evaluation. She specializes in evaluating community-led programs, including human rights and advocacy initiatives. Her evaluations – principally conducted in the United States, Africa, and Caribbean – focus on adolescent and Black gay and bisexual men, bisexual girls, transgender women, and male sex workers. She served as lead scientist on the American Psychological Association's Task Force on Therapeutic Approaches to Sexual Orientation Distress, which is routinely cited in legislation banning conversion therapy practices. Awards include the 2023 Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Evaluation Practice Award from the American Evaluation Association for substantive cumulative contributions to the development of LGBTQ evaluation practice, and the 2022 Exemplary Project W. K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Award for evaluating human rights advocacy for LGBTQ people in Africa and the Caribbean. She is author of more than 100 scholarly publications, including Breaking Barriers: Sexual and Gender Minority-led Advocacy to End AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean, published by Oxford University Press, co-authored with activist-scholar George Ayala. Past funders include AmFAR, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Drug Abuse, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development, and the U.S. Department of State.

• 2010–2025 Prof., Michigan State University
• 2005–2010 Associate Professor, Michigan State University
• 2002–2009 Associate Professor, University of Illinois Chicago
• 1995–2002 Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago
• 1993–1995 Director of Evaluation, Gay Men's Health Crisis
• 1990–1993 Assistant Director of Education, Gay Men's Health Crisis
• 1989–1990 Coordinator of Evaluation, Gay Men's Health Crisis
• 1987–1989 Statistician, Gay Men's Health Crisis
• 1984–1986 Coordinator of Student Affairs, Sarah Lawrence College
• 1983–1984 Student Activities Assistant Coordinator, Sarah Lawrence College

Member, Academy of Commmunity Engagement Scholarship; Fellow, American Psychological Association; Fellow, Society for Community Research and Action

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