I have the power to decide to embrace the learning.

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Robin Watkins joined Power to Decide in 2018 and is the Senior Director of Health Care. Ms. Watkins is a Certified Nurse Midwife and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner by training whose work at Power to Decide focuses on building strategic partnerships with health care systems and organizational partners across the country so that all health and social service providers can integrate the tenets of reproductive well-being into all aspects of their care. Her work creating and enhancing patient and provider resources, delivering trainings, and expanding the reach of Power to Decide resources, such as Bedsider and AbortionFinder, is human-centered, driven by equity, and informed by the best available medical evidence and clinical guidelines. 

Robin provides sexual and reproductive health care in the Washington, DC area and comes to Power to Decide with a wealth of knowledge and experience in sexual and reproductive health care, delivering direct patient care, as well as spearheading sexual and reproductive health quality improvement projects in Washington, DC. Robin earned her Master of Science in Nursing, Midwifery, and Women's Health Nurse Practitioner degree from Georgetown University School of Nursing, and BS degrees in both nursing and public health from Johns Hopkins University.