Our Staff
Robin Hankins, Founder & CEO
Robin Hankins has published information for women in the Tampa Bay area since 1991, first with Pathways Magazine, then Tampa Bay Woman Magazine (formerly called Intuition for Women). Robin is passionately committed to improving the quality of women’s lives through access to services and information.
She is also a licensed auctioneer, a Certified Instructor with Unity Progressive Council and supports the statewide efforts of Equality Florida and several other nonprofit organizations.
Contact Robin Hankins at (727) 224-9807 or via email at Rhankins@tampabay.rr.com
Robin Tuthill, Editor
Robin Tuthill, born and raised in St. Petersburg, Florida, has been a writer and editor since 1980. She first wrote for the afternoon newspaper, the Evening Independent, specializing in medical features. Later, she worked in hospital public relations, technical editing, and academic editing and writing. As a freelance writer, she has been published in Ms. Magazine, Law and Order, University of South Florida Magazine, and the St. Petersburg Times.
In the early ‘90s, Robin earned a master’s degree in religious studies and taught comparative religion courses at the Emma Curtis Hopkins Theological Seminary in Clearwater, where she also served as Dean. In 2002, she authored the Instructor’s Manual and Test Questions to accompany World Religions Today, a college textbook written by three religious studies scholars and published by Oxford University Press in New York.
Robin has facilitated “Freeing the Writer Within” workshops and ongoing writing groups since 1995. She created the workshop based on Natalie Goldberg’s “writing practice,” as outlined in her bestselling book, Writing Down the Bones.
Since 1996 Robin has partnered her editing talents with the entrepreneurial spirit and business talents of Robin Hankins. Together they created Intuition for Women magazine and published the popular monthly magazine for seven years.
Robin presently edits and writes for Pearls of Wisdom Councils, Inc. and the Bay Area Women’s Directory. She also assists people in composing their spiritual wills, a written record of values, beliefs, life lessons learned, and hopes for the future.
Robin is a passionate gardener and is learning all about the flora and fauna of Chicago, where she re-located to in September 2005 with her partner and their two toy poodles. “While it wasn’t a time of life where I expected to move to another state and wholly different lifestyle, we’re looking at it as a great adventure and feel excited about exploring new territory,” Robin says.
Contact Robin via email at rtuthill12@aol.com
Vonn New, Website Designer
Vonn New is the proprietor and sole employee of Vonn New Technology, a freelance website design company.
Vonn grew up in Kansas and studied political science and biology at the University of Kansas and botany at the University of Florida. In 1980, she was on her way to a career in the sciences when someone put a prototype of an IBM PC on her desk to try out and she discovered a talent for making computers do whatever she tells them to. She rode the wave of the early PC and networking revolution, eventually traveling the world teaching IT professionals how to install and configure networks.
After coming out in 1996, she took a break from technology to devote her energies to social justice work. From 2001 to 2005, Vonn was the Central Florida director of Equality Florida, where she was responsible for voter and candidate education, volunteer mobilization, citizen lobbying efforts, local government and community coordination, media relations, public speaking, and organizing direct and online actions. She moved to upstate New York in early 2006 to work in an arts non-profit, but was badly injured in a car accident shortly thereafter. During her recovery, Vonn returned to her technical roots and retrained herself in website design, digital audio, and graphic design.
Vonn is a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and is actively engaged in a ministry of integrating sound, movement and Quaker worship. She is involved with Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns and is the clerk of her local meeting's Peace and Social Action committee. She is the parent of two adult sons and is also an active performing musician.