Robin Abedon, Certified Educational Consultant, has a rich background in education as a teacher, college admissions officer, counselor, school trustee and administrator.

Throughout her years in education, Abedon has mentored students in the process of academic selection and admissions, counseled them in curricular and co-curricular planning and motivated them to make rewarding choices.

Since moving to Florida in 1995, Abedon has specialized in educational counseling. As a Certified Educational Consultant, she works with young people who are preparing for their college education. She guides students in all facets of the complex and challenging process of college selection and planning.

Abedon is a member of IECA (Independent Educational Consultants Association) and NACAC (National Association for College Admission Counseling). She has taken an active role in the leadership of IECA as a member of its Board of Directors (2004-2007, 2008-2011). She has served on its Executive Board as: Vice-President for Committees (2008-2009); Secretary/treasurer and Chairman of the Membership Committee (2006-2007). From 2002-2004 she was chairperson of the College Committee.

Abedon’s primary volunteer commitments in Palm Beach County have been in service to children and families. She is presently on the Board of Directors of Child and Family Connections, the oversight group for all child and family services in the county. For ten years she was on the board of the Children’s Home Society of South Florida. In 2005-2006, she was the Chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Prior to moving to Florida, Abedon taught English in the Newton, MA and Barrington, RI school systems; she was also a member of Brown University's admissions staff, where she interviewed and evaluated prospective students; and she served as Executive Director of the Rhode Island Council on Economic Education, at Rhode Island College, training teachers and students to develop basic understandings of Economics.

Abedon served as Chairperson of the Board of Trustees at Friends Academy in North Dartmouth, MA. She was a member of the Board of Trustees at the Community Preparatory School, an inner-city private school in Providence, RI, devoted to educating students who might not have the opportunity to enroll in fine secondary schools and colleges. She mentored many students as they transitioned into high school.

Abedon graduated from Tufts University magna cum laude in English and Phi Beta Kappa. Her graduate work was done at Harvard University, where she earned a Master of Arts in the Teaching of English at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Master of Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.