Robin Clark-Bennett teaches noncredit classes for working Iowans on labor and employment rights, collective bargaining, organizing, labor history, workplace safety, and pre-apprenticeship pathways into skilled construction trades. She speaks Spanish and conducts many of the Labor Center’s outreach programs with immigrant and refugee community organizations. 

Robin first joined the Labor Center from 2002-2004 to work on the Child Labor Public Education Project, a two-year initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Labor that developed and conducted adult education modules on the subject of child labor in global context. She returned to the Labor Center as a labor educator in 2008 and served as the Center's Director from 2021 - 2024. 

Robin has over 30 years of experience with the labor movement, beginning as an intern with the ILGWU in New York City in 1992. She served as a regional Organizing Director in ACTWU/UNITE working with manufacturing, industrial laundry, and distribution center employees in New England, and held staff leadership positions in SEIU and AFSCME representing hospital employees, home care, and family childcare providers in the Midwest.

Robin is a co-founder of the Iowa BlueGreen Alliance, the Iowa Women in Trades network, the Iowa Labor History Society, and the Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa. She also serves on the board of the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights and is a member of the United Association for Labor Education.