m2m - Robin Smalley

Robin Smalley

Co-founder, International Director Robin Smalley is mothers2mothers’ international director. In 2004, whilst living in South Africa with her family, Robin directed the organizations rapid expansion, successfully managing our development and expanding the funding pool from donations made by individual donors and local businesses, to grants from major international organizations and governments.

In the past, her non-profit work focused on providing job training and placement in the entertainment industry for at-risk youth. She joined the Board of Directors of the Hollywood-based Streetlights Production Assistant Program and started a consultation business with several high-profile clients. She was then introduced to The Media Project, an NPO devoted to working with television writers and producers in the area of adolescent sexuality and reproductive health. As Director of The Media Project, Robin supervised a seven-year period of the program’s expansion. This included promotion of the rapidly successful SHINE Awards (Sexual Health in Entertainment) and implementation of Viacom’s “Know/AIDS” campaign in Los Angeles.

Robin has 15-years of experience working in the entertainment industry and has devoted over a decade of her life to the non-profit world. She is a member of both the Writers Guild of America and the Directors Guild of America, and has produced a variety of shows, and is also an Emmy Award-winning director.

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"I never thought that I would see my child (who tested negative after nine months) growing up. Soon she will be a teenager and what a blessing! I call her my sunshine beam."

Site Coordinator and mother

At least 12 million children in sub-Saharan Africa have lost their parents or caregivers to AIDS-related illnesses. mothers2mothers provides the knowledge, support and hope required for preserving a mother's health so she can live to raise her child.

More than 95% of the mothers in our program are tested for HIV vs. a national average of 20%. Nearly all of them give birth to HIV-negative children.