[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.

One week after Washingtonian Magazine published Robbins’ article, the FDA agreed to import the nutrients from other countries.

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