Robin Bronk

Chief Executive Officer

Robin Bronk is Chief Executive Officer of The Creative Coalition (“TCC”)—the leading national, nonprofit, nonpartisan social and public advocacy organization of the arts and entertainment industry. As CEO, Bronk is dedicated to educating the entertainment industry and arts community on issues of public importance, particularly the First Amendment, arts advocacy, arts in education, and media literacy.

Under Bronk’s leadership, TCC started the Spotlight Initiative, a program that produces and supports films with important social messages. Through the Spotlight Initiative, Bronk has created partnerships with the leading independent film distributors and producers including HBO, Oscilloscope, Focus Features, Samuel Goldwyn Films, Paladin, Participant, Baltimore Films, Abramorama, Incognito, Original Media, Roadside Attractions, and ATO Pictures among others.

Under her leadership, TCC signature programs include the New York Business Leader Task Force on Runaway Production, Moviemaker Mentors, Teachers Making a Difference, the Spotlight Awards, Stand Up For Class Mentors, Capitol Hill Leaders Advisory Council, TCC’s Inaugural Ball, Reel Life Vs. Real Life Series, Seconding the First Dialogues, Parents Advisory Council for TV Watch, and Voices of Impact.

Bronk joined The Creative Coalition in July 1998 as the organization’s Executive Director, and was made its CEO in 2010.

She is an author and public speaker and produced the Showtime feature film, Poliwood, directed by Academy Award-winner Barry Levinson. She has also produced several award-winning Public Service Announcement campaigns. Bronk serves as spokesperson for TCC and is a speaks on the role of the entertainment industry in public advocacy campaigns. She has been in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, People, Boston Globe, The Washington Post; and has been a guest of “The O’Reilly Factor”, “Hardball”, “Scarborough Country”, as well as CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, NPR, PBS, New York 1 and other broadcast outlets as well as a contributor to The Huffington Post.

She was selected to be a participant in the 2010 and 2011 Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Conferences. She is the recipient of the 2011 Gracie Award for producing Watch What You Watch, a PSA campaign for girls and body image. Bronk received the 2010 Artivist Award for her leadership in the arts and activism and the Honorary Trailblazer Award at the 2011 Woodstock Film Festival. She has edited two books, “Art & Soul” (Hearst Communications) and “If You Had Five Minutes With the President” (Harper Collins). Bronk also penned a weekly “Five Minutes…” column for The Hill newspaper. During the summer of 2011, Ms. Bronk began hosting a weekly segment on independent film for New York City’s leading radio station, WBAI-FM.

Bronk is a former Capitol Hill strategist and advocate. She has represented TCC at Congressional Hearings, and represented the organization and before Members of Congress and the White House.

Prior to her appointment, Bronk served as Vice President, Corporate Community Strategies, for APCO Worldwide, a global communication consultancy with offices in major cities throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Her clients included corporations, governments, industry associations and nonprofit organizations. Her areas of client services included corporate and internal communication; crisis management; issue management; government relations; media relations; coalition building; corporate social responsibility and online communication. She also served as the Director of Cause Celeb, an APCO division that matched celebrities and entertainment leaders with national causes and issues of importance.

Bronk played a leading role in APCO’s work with the MCI Foundation. As an on-loan executive, she served as the interim director of the foundation, managing its multi-million dollar philanthropic grant-making program. Besides MCI, Bronk’s clients also included the ASCAP Leiber & Stoller Music Scholarship Fund, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the National Geographic Society, the Recording Industry Association of America, National Council of Jewish Women and American Forest Foundation.

Prior to joining APCO, Bronk worked for ABC News, served as a program coordinator for a weekly education series that aired on C-SPAN and worked as a program instructor of the Close Up Foundation.

Bronk serves on the New York Cultural Task Force, is a board member of The White House Project, The Close Up Foundation, Carmel Art & Film Festival, Gold Coast International Film Festival and Young Playwrights Inc., and is a member of the Public Relations Society of America and Women of Washington. She has won awards and honors for her public affairs work.

Bronk received her Bachelor of Arts from the Pennsylvania State University.