Samantha Robison

Samantha Robison is founder and executive director of Awareness and Prevention through Art (aptART), an organization of artists and activists dedicated to sharing artistic experiences with marginalized and conflict-affected youth throughout the world. AptART coordinates workshops for youth that result in large-scale public art. Samantha develops, organizes, and manages projects in partnership with the United Nations and government agencies as well as local and international non-governmental organizations. Samantha also works as the Director of Media & Development for community skatepark building organization, Make Life Skate Life. She organizes, documents and researches skatepark projects around the world. Her work has brought her to Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Turkey, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique and across Europe.

Samantha holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a minor in Studio Art from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where she was awarded the alumni of the year in 2016. In 2017 Samantha received the Krider Prize for Creativity by the University & College Designers Association. In 2019, Samantha began a Masters of Fine Art program in Social Documentation at the University of California Santa Cruz.