Robin Hammond is the Chief Workforce Development Officer for EPIXC, a public-private partnership aimed at securing U.S. manufacturing competitiveness in a global economic environment that increasingly demands more efficient, cost-effective heating technologies and a skilled workforce to implement them.
Prior to this, Hammond was the Founding Director of the Fulton Schools of Engineering Career Center at Arizona State University, which serves over 32,000 engineering students and technical professionals as of Fall 2023. Hammond led teams that helped global companies cultivate talent pipelines and successfully recruit top talent. Additionally, Hammond built innovative career programs like the Fulton Ultimate Engineering and Leadership program, and the Texas Instruments Technical, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Bootcamp that participants cited as transformative experiences.
Passionate about broadening participation in higher education, Hammond was Co-PI for NSF INCLUDES and S-STEM grants studying student success factors for first-generation-to-college students, which resulted in applying a "Theory of Change" model to illustrate high impact praxis for retention and college success.
Hammond serves on the Indigenous Career Futures university committee, and consults with the American Indian Science and Engineering Society at ASU as a former advisor. Hammond has held leadership roles in the American Society of Engineering Education Cooperative and Experiential Education division.
Hammond holds a bachelor's degree from ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and has 30+ years of higher education experience. She is Dine’ and a proud member of the Navajo Nation.
