A conversation with Hollis Robbins, Ph.D., Dean of Arts & Humanities at Sonoma State University, Author, Poet and so much more.

I’ve been looking forward to this conversation, and it was so much fun. Press play!

Hollis Robbins is currently the Dean of Arts & Humanities at Sonoma State University. Hollis has 2 books on the way later this year. Her work covers a lot of ground and I have developed a deeper appreciation for classical studies and black studies partly because of the perspective(s) she shares with me.

We sat down to discuss everything from politics, academia, liberal arts, poetry, black studies, literature, and so much more.

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Hollis describes her background on LinkedIn below:

Over two decades of public facing leadership in higher education and government relations, as well as financial oversight and budgeting; working with boards of directors; strategic planning; diversity, equity and inclusion; developing innovative education models. Longstanding academic focus on African American literature; film and film music; poetry and artificial Intelligence.

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You can find Hollis on Twitter at @anecdotal. She has one of the best Twitter handles I have ever seen, and we discuss this briefly in the audio recording. A

Also, tell me this tweet isn’t funny as hell? Especially if you have a Bay Area frame of reference.

Anecdotal @anecdotal

"I mean, this whole country started as Europe's side hustle, they just didn't call it that." -- overheard, Marin coffee shop