Robert's teaching career since 1995 includes thirteen years as head of the Fibers program at Lane Community College, teaching textile surface design techniques and hand weaving through the Eugene Weaver's Guild, as well as faculty experience at the University of Oregon.

[11] From 1995 through 2007, Robert served as the Fiber Arts program director and an instructor at Lane Community College.

[12] She publicly disclosed in 2017 that she had left after sexual harassment by a colleague; college officials had not sanctioned the attacker on the grounds that it was a "he said, she said" situation.

In 2018 Robert completed a residency at PLAYA, an Oregon non-profit facility supporting "work in the arts, literature, natural sciences, and other fields of creative inquiry", located on Summer Lake in Lake County, southeast of Bend.

[3] Robert was the featured guest instructor for the 2023 Hawaiʻi Handweavers' Hui annual workshop on Ikat weaving, "a woven resist technique where threads are bound according to a pattern.