Robin A. Proudie a native St. Louisan, served seven years in the U. S. Navy, and seventeen years as a civil servant working alongside senior-level government and military officials, and foreign diplomats based in Washington, D.C.

For nine years, she held a top-secret/sci clearance as a member of the intelligence community at the Pentagon.  In this capacity, she was responsible for the special accreditation of the Corps of Military Attachés and Distinguished Foreign Visitors from over 95 nations.

Robin has held positions with the Department of Justice, serving as a special assistant to the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, and she supported mediation for communities in conflict as a specialist at the Community Relations Service.  She also served as a confidential assistant with the Department of Agriculture, and helped to facilitate specialized training, technology, administrative and program support services to federal judges serving in the Judiciary.

She credits the diversity of her experience with helping to hone the skills needed to accomplish what she describes as the most important mission of her life – to honor and commemorate the lives of her Ancestors enslaved by the Jesuits, to repair historical harms that impact descendants today, and to educate the broader public about this history now, and in the future.

To accomplish this mission, Robin organized known descendants and allies to form the Descendants of the St. Louis University Enslaved, or DSLUE.  DSLUE is a descendant-led 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization based in the St. Louis metro area.  

Robin is also a founding board member of the Maryland-based White Marsh Historical Society (WMHS).  The WMHS is a descendant-led 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization dedicated to perpetuating the memory and heritage of the enslaved families that labored at the former Jesuit-run White Marsh plantation. In 2023, the WMHS became co-stewards of an abandoned African American burial site to ensure upwards of 500 graves of enslaved families and their descendants are properly restored, preserved, and memorialized.