ROBIN ESPINOLA is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, producer, researcher, and writer whose work has appeared on HBO, PBS, ABC, History, Lifetime, Discovery, in theaters, and across major streaming platforms. She specializes in crafting truthful, visually rich narratives for television and documentary film— exploring powerful stories that illuminate American history and identity.

Espinola has received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations, a News and Documentary Emmy Award for Research, and the Erik Barnouw Award from the Organization for American Historians.

Most recently, she collaborated with Lynn Novick to develop a PBS series on the history of Central Park. She also served as lead creative producer for The League, a feature documentary on the history of African American baseball that premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. Directed by Sam Pollard for RadicalMedia, and executive produced by Questlove, the film was released by Magnolia Pictures and nominated for three Critics Choice Documentary Awards. Espinola later returned to RadicalMedia to story-produce two episodes of Kevin Costner’s The West for the History Channel.

In addition to her historical work, Espinola has extensive experience shaping compelling narratives in the true crime genre. She has served as a story producer for three acclaimed HBO investigative series—Murder on Middle Beach, The Vow: Part Two, and The Yogurt Shop Murders.  She worked as a senior producer for ABC’s series The Con.

For more than a decade, Espinola worked alongside historical filmmaker Ric Burns, producing numerous documentaries for public television, including The Chinese Exclusion Act, The Pilgrims, Death and the Civil War, and Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World. She also served as series archivist for Burns’s landmark PBS series New York: A Documentary Film.

Espinola began her career as an intern at Blackside, Inc., the Boston-based production company best known for Eyes on the Prize, the groundbreaking television series chronicling the history of the civil rights movement.

She earned her Bachelor of Arts in American Civilization and Semiotics from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and lives on Long Island with her husband and two children.