Robin Truesdale Biography

Robin Truesdale is a professional video editor, photographer and graphic designer with twenty years of video production experience. She has produced three independent documentary films in the last three years, screening them at venues around the country. Truesdale’s independent work deals primarily with social justice, culture, and humanitarian issues.

Truesdale’s most recent production for Ancient-Ways.org explores the healthcare crisis in Zimbabwe and how one woman’s grassroots non-profit is supporting healthcare and education in rural Zimbabwean villages. In Conviction (2006), three Dominican nuns are sentenced to prison after their symbolic protest of U.S. nuclear weapons. In Rhythm Bridge (2005), a man’s love of Zimbabwean music takes him on a 3000-mile journey, on foot and bicycle, to raise money for AIDS orphans and poverty in Africa.

At present, Truesdale is producing a documentary for National Geographic All Roads. Filming will take place in Zimbabwe this September. In addition, she holds a full time editing position at InJoy Videos, providing educational parenting and childbirth videos to health institutions across the U.S.

When possible, Truesdale does freelance work through her own company, RT Editing. Her projects and clients include the Colorado Governors Office of Energy Management and Conservation, Colorado Energy Science Center; Careers for the 21st Century, The Art of Thai Yoga Massage, Yoga with Richard Freeman, Great Divide Pictures, Fox News, NBC, ABC, WXIA-TV, and 1996 Summer Olympic Games coverage.

In 2003, Truesdale received her Master’s Degree from the University of Colorado School of Journalism. During her course of study, she was a graduate assistant and adjunct professor, teaching video photography and editing, and also coordinating the student-produced television news program.

From 1987 to 1996, Truesdale was a television news editor at KUSA-TV, Denver. During that time, she edited daily news, as well as in-depth series and specials. She received her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Colorado School of Journalism in 1987.

Truesdale is a member of the Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism Honor Society, Denver Film Society, Boulder Digital Arts, and Boulder Filmmaker’s Collective.