Robyn Ross

New York

Executive Producer at People Magazine

Executive producer at @People. Previously @EW, @TVGuide, @NBCSVU. I tweet a lot about Christmas movies, The Bachelor and running.

Articles

The visionary and the implementer: Partners combine strengths to launch a housing development for formerly homeless older adults

3 weeks ago | faithandleadership.com | Robyn Ross

On a warm January day in San Antonio, guests are still trickling into the Dorothy Day House of Hospitality at the end of the lunch hour. Chris Plauche smiles and greets them by name as she hands them plates of barbecue and green beans donated by a local restaurant. A half dozen guests are scattered among picnic tables in the dining room, where light spills through oversize windows and glints off the wood floor. Some of them arrived in the morning by city bus.
More Reasons to Love the Black-Tailed Prairie Dog

2 months ago | texasmonthly.com | Robyn Ross

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A San Antonio Teenager’s Nonprofit Assists Doctors a World Away

Jan 9, 2025 | texasmonthly.com | Robyn Ross |Jason Heid

Dr. Abbé Luvale Floribert was on duty when a desperate mother brought her wounded ten-year-old son to the hospital in Kayna, a village on the eastern edge of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The region is the epicenter of conflict among multiple rebel groups, and the hospital often sees patients with gunshot wounds. That day, the boy and his mother had been running from the fighting but had gotten caught in the cross fire.
The Texas School District That Can’t Stop Growing

Dec 12, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Robyn Ross

By the middle of September, Kenzie Kingston has already shown half a dozen new students around her TikTok-famous campus. The senior and student ambassador at Walnut Grove High School, in Prosper, about 35 miles north of downtown Dallas, is used to hearing them react with a single word: wow. From the outside, Walnut Grove, which opened in 2023, is a block-long wall of two-story beige brick, broken in the middle by the building’s neoclassical-style entrance.
These Schools Brought Opportunity to Black Texans During Segregation. Only a Few Still Stand.

Dec 10, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Robyn Ross |Rose Cahalan

In the early 1940s, Elroy Williams attended third grade in a simple wooden building in rural Bastrop County. The structure lacked indoor plumbing and relied on a wood stove for heat. But the walls were lined with windows that let in plenty of light and could be opened in the warmer months to create a pleasant cross breeze. The students’ parents brought firewood to the school in winter, and some of the older kids, in seventh and eighth grade, helped cut it to size.
Lions and Tigers-and Pigeons

Nov 18, 2024 | macalester.edu | Robyn Ross

By Robyn Ross / Photo by Sabrina Guyton-WrightAlthough she was raised in the heart of Chicago, Dr. Jo-Elle Mogerman ’92 grew up surrounded by nature. On warm evenings, she sat on the porch of her family’s bungalow, watching squirrels forage for food. She dug up worms in her tiny yard and listened as her father identified the neighborhood birds: blue jays, robins, house sparrows. Hear that song? he would ask. That’s a cardinal. It didn’t matter that her father didn’t have a high school diploma.
A Cross in the Road — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

Oct 28, 2024 | bittersoutherner.com | Robyn Ross

As a board-certified chaplain, Deborah Reeves usually preferred listening over public speaking. But the night of January 29 was different. The school board in her town of 4,700, a short drive from Austin, Texas, was poised to make a momentous decision — one Reeves feared would erode the boundary between church and state. That night, the board would vote on whether to allow religious chaplains to serve in public schools in the roles traditionally held by guidance counselors.
Texas Ranchers Used to Hate Prairie Dogs. Now Some Are Fans.

Oct 3, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Robyn Ross |Rose Cahalan

By sunrise on an August morning, the landscaping crew at the Marathon Grasslands Preserve in Brewster County is hard at work. Plump, sandy brown bodies scamper across the gently sloping ground at this 2,700-acre preserve about ten miles northeast of Marathon, pausing where a piece of too-tall grass needs to be chewed down. Dirt flies as a digger cleans out a burrow, her black-tipped tail bouncing as she works.
The Most Underrated Travel Experience in Texas: College Museums

Sep 4, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Robyn Ross |Rose Cahalan

Museums on college campuses are a resource for enrolled students, but they let the rest of us continue our education too—often for free. Many focus on a specific region or era of history, magnifying details that might get overlooked in a more comprehensive museum. And university gardens function as teaching laboratories for horticulture students, as well as soul-soothing spots to escape the academic grind.
The Lost Underwater Towns of Texas

Aug 13, 2024 | texashighways.com | Robyn Ross |Danielle Lopez

Two decades before his farm disappeared under the waters of the Toledo Bend Reservoir, A.A. McGraw was a young World War II sailor set to return to Texas. He had grown up in tiny Fairdale on the Texas-Louisiana border and had swum across the Sabine to court a young woman who lived on the opposite side of the river. That woman later became his wife and the mother of their children. McGraw’s family lived in a log house in Fairdale, where they waited for him to return from Japan.