Alma Robinson is the Executive Director of California Lawyers for the Arts (CLA), where she oversees legal, education and alternative dispute resolution services, and leads a robust Arts-in-Corrections Initiative. California's stellar arts programs in prisons had been completely defunded in 2003. As a result of CLA's evidence-based demonstration projects, state funding was restored by 2016 to $8 million per year. While working with arts agencies in Texas, Louisiana, and New York to expand arts programs in their prisons and jails, Alma also launched Designing Creative Futures, a program that has placed 175 formerly incarcerated people in paid arts internships. A graduate of Middlebury College and Stanford Law School, she received the Michael Newton Award for collaborative leadership from Americans for the Arts in 2021.