Robyn Gulley joined the Doctors Council as the Midwest Regional Coordinator in 2025.

Robyn grew up in a union family–her grandpa was an auto-worker who lived on his pension and was active in his retirees group. Her dad was a city bus driver. Union meetings and picnics were regular family events. As an undergraduate, Robyn became interested in learning more about the labor movement. She worked with the Southwest Labor School to explore labor history in the region and raise funds for union education.

In 2011, Robyn joined SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and Iowa where she organized support for the Minnesota healthcare expansion, and then organized homecare workers who wanted to unionize. In 2013, Robyn was serving as an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota and she joined the Faculty Organizing Committee. And in 2018, seeing a need for education for union members, Robyn co-founded New Brookwood Labor College.

Robyn deeply believes in the power of organized labor to affect economic and social conditions for working people and families.

Robyn holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the College of Santa Fe, a Master of Public Policy from the University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs, and a Master in Human Rights from Central European University. She is also ABD on a Doctorate of Education from Hamline University. Robyn currently serves on the West St. Paul City Council and the University of Minnesota Board of Regents.

When Robyn is not organizing and building power, she is spending time with her amazing husband and four daughters. You can usually find them on the sidelines of kids’ sports or on a sailboat.

Robyn can be reached via email at:
rgulley at doctorscouncil.org.