[1] She graduated from Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland in 1994, and summa cum laude from Yale University in 1998.

[2] She has also written for a variety of publications, including Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, USA Today, Cosmopolitan, and Salon.com.

Her article, "Children Are Dying," investigated a shortage of critical nutrients that premature babies and other patients need to survive.

[5] On May 28, 2015, Robbins wrote a New York Times op-ed about inadequate nurse staffing at hospitals in the United States.

[6] Along with author Jane Mayer, she broke the story about President Bush's unimpressive college grades and SATs in The New Yorker.