Robin Toma

Robin S. Toma is the Executive Director of the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission, where he has been on staff since 1995. The Commission assists schools and school districts, cities and police departments, the media industry and other major institutions in creating healthier, more harmonious and equitable relations among people in one of the most culturally diverse places in the world. He is an author of two Commission publications: A Primer on Managing Intergroup Conflict in a Multicultural Workplace (1996) and Day Laborers Hiring Sites: Constructive Approaches to Community Conflict (with co-author Jill Esbenshade) (2001). Mr. Toma received a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Economics from UC Santa Cruz, a Juris Doctor from UCLA Law School, and a Master’s degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from UCLA. Following law school, Mr. Toma became a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, where he worked for nearly seven years. He litigated a wide range of cases involving international human rights violations relating to government-sponsored trans-border abductions, free speech rights, voting rights, English-only workplace rules, police dogs, racial gang profiling, the rights of day laborers, anti-homeless ordinances, and other human rights and civil liberties issue.