Robin Lin Miller

Professor - Department of Psychology

Robin Lin Miller, PhD is a Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University, where she directs the doctoral training program in ecological-community psychology and is associate director and co-founder of the master’s degree and certificate in program evaluation. Her evaluation career reflects a 38-year commitment to the health and well-being of LGBTQ+ populations and others at high-risk of HIV infection. She began her career as an evaluation specialist for the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) in the earliest years of the HIV epidemic and established its first organization-wide Department of Evaluation. Dr. Miller has evaluated diverse community-designed and led programs in the United States, Africa, and Caribbean for adolescents, Black gay and bisexual men, ex-offenders, bisexual girls, transgender women, and male sex workers, including structural and human rights interventions to promote access to HIV prevention and care and reduce structural stigma. She has also performed policy-related work on conversion therapy, serving as the lead evaluation scientist on the American Psychological Association’s Task Force on Therapeutic Approaches to Sexual Orientation Distress. The latter report is heavily cited in passed and pending legislation banning conversion therapy practices on minors in multiple U. S. states. She is a well-published and award-winning scholar.  She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of Division 27, the Society for Community Research and Action. Her awards include the 2023 Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Evaluation Practice Award from the American Evaluation Association, in recognition of substantive cumulative contributions to the development of LGBTQ evaluation practice, and a 2022 Exemplary Project W. K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Award from the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities and Engagement Scholarship Consortium for her work evaluating human rights advocacy for LGBTQ people in Africa and the Caribbean. The latter project is the subject of a forthcoming book, Breaking Barriers: Sexual and Gender Minority-led Advocacy to End AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean, co-authored with activist-scholar George Ayala. Her work has been funded by the U.S. Department of State, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Drug Abuse, and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development, in addition to state and local governments and private foundations.

Robin Lin Miller is Aldo Barrita's mentor.