Robin Bleiweis

Robin Bleiweis is a Public Interest Fellow in the Washington, D.C. office. Robin received her J.D. with honors from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 2024. While at UNC, she embraced experiential learning opportunities both inside and outside of the classroom. She provided over 100 hours of pro bono legal services including work with the Carolina Abortion Fund helping minors secure a judicial bypass to obtain abortion care without parental consent and with the Compass Center for Women & Families, counseling a client experiencing domestic violence about her divorce and property division options.

Robin spent her 3L year as a clinical law student in UNC Law’s Civil Legal Assistance Clinic. She argued and won the first case in North Carolina state court seeking the transfer of an incarcerated intersex woman from a men’s prison to a women’s prison. Robin also represented two workers experiencing wage theft and successfully negotiated with their employer to secure a confession of judgment and payment plan.

During her summers, Robin clerked for a supervisory Administrative Judge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and interned with a firm representing federal employees in employment discrimination and whistleblower cases.

Prior to law school, Robin worked as a securities paralegal for Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC. She then worked for the Center for American Progress as a Research Associate for Women’s Economic Security.

Robin received her B.A. magna cum laude from Wake Forest University in 2016, where she studied sociology and psychology.