Pamela Leggett-Robinson is the CEO and Executive Director for PLR Consulting in Atlanta, GA. PLR Consulting is a boutique Program Development, Management, and Evaluation firm that works with organizations and institutions that seek to address multi-faceted obstacles confronting historically and presently marginalized groups in STEM environments and optimize current STEM programs through management and evaluation. Dr. Leggett-Robinson has more than 15 years of higher education experience, including STEM academic and student success/support programming, strategic planning, data analytics, and program evaluation. As a PI, she has garnered funds in excess of $3 million from both NIH and NSF for broadening participation in STEM Undergraduate Education. As an Evaluator, she has worked on large projects with NSF (Big Data, BioGraph), Google CS-ER, and DOD STEM Student Success. Most recently, Dr. Leggett-Robinson (PLR Consulting), in collaboration with Georgia Tech, Spelman, and Albany State, was awarded $4.2M in funding for their National Science Foundation (NSF) Racial Equity in STEM Education project: Understanding Persistence through the Lens of Interruption: A Framework for Transformation (UPLIFT).
Her distinguished record of STEM programmatic success (at HBCUs and PWIs) is well documented in publications and presentations. In 2022, she was awarded the Stanley Israel Diversity Award from the American Chemical Society for her work in the space of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access in the chemical enterprise. Dr. Leggett-Robinson’s latest publications, ”Demystifying Promotion & Tenure: A resource for Black Women” and “Overcoming Barriers for Women of Color in STEM,” are resources to assist Black women along their STEM journey. She currently distributes a bi-monthly Overcoming Barriers Newsletter to Women of Color STEM faculty. Dr. Leggett-Robinson holds a Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry from Georgia State University and is a Certified Associate of Project Management.
