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Leslie R. Robinson

Leslie R. Robinson is psychotherapist and the inventor of the games Keep It Real game and Keep It Real Diverse (Diversity) game. Spawned from her many years of work with adolescents and young adults, Keep It Real was created as a forum to provide profound dialogue, trust and connection.

It is an interactive communication board game that provides a safe space for people to explore and share their beliefs, feelings, memories, reflections and dreams out loud. Presently, the Keep It Real Diverse game is being utilized to build bridges and connections across differences by approximately 200 Boys & Girls Clubs, 500 colleges and universities and numerous corporations and organizations, as well as numerous youth programs and families nationwide.

In 2009, Leslie founded Trance4mation Games, a company formed as the overall company for her Keep It Real brand, Warrior Spirit Mission Homefront and RECHARGE Beyond the Bars Re-Entry game. Leslie’s Warrior Spirit Mission Homefront is a communication game designed for soldiers and other military personnel and their families and friends. It has been heralded by hundreds of veterans across all branches of the military as a valuable and indispensable forum that allows for open communication and reintegration, specifically when soldiers return home after tours of duty away from their families.

RECHARGE Beyond the Bars Re-Entry Game, to help formerly incarcerated people reintegrate into their families and communities as well as to process their incarceration experience. The game is presently being utilized in re-entry programs in and outside of prisons, mentoring programs, work release programs, by cognitive-behavioral therapists, in prison literacy programs, life skills programs, by families, in prison visits, by church and faith-based organizations, in classrooms, by Social Workers, etc.

Moreover, Leslie has been a Program Director for at-risk youth in the South Bronx. For more than six years, she created and implemented long-term intensive arts and after-school programs in inner city schools for at-risk youth, and for two years pioneered a poetry project at Rikers Island Correctional Facilities for Men and Women. She has been a Consultant for the foster care system for the past 18 years and has supervised residences for homeless young adults, worked in homeless shelters, and worked in an emergency shelter for runaway youth. A former adjunct professor in literature and writing at the College of New Rochelle, Leslie graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Masters Degree in Creative Writing.

Leslie has been developing and facilitating highly lauded workshops on leadership development, diversity and inclusion, first generation, professional development, team building, anti-bullying, veteran reintegration, and service learning on college campuses nationwide. Her areas of expertise are: Diversity and Inclusion, Leadership Development, Team Building, Veteran Reintegration, First Generation, Empowerment, Professional Development, Student Retention, Retreats, Community Building, Resiliency, Crisis Management, Transitions, Positive Relationships and Mental Health. She hosted a national Diversity Webinar attended by over 300 colleges and universities in November 2013. Leslie is also a Department of Defense Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Speaker.

For more information please visit the product websites: www.keepitrealgame.com  		www.missionhomefront.com   		www.rechargethegame.com