Jocelyn V. Robinson has worked in higher education and arts/cultural organizations for her entire professional life and has over two decades of experience, most of it at the director level. She holds a BA in Art History from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, a Master’s in Cultural Studies with a concentration in Race, Gender, and Identity from Antioch University, and a graduate certificate in Archives and Records Management, also from Wright State through its public history track.

She has incorporated critical cultural theory and her research interests in self-definition and identity into transdisciplinary courses that blend media studies and Africana literature, and is adept at guiding diverse student populations through discussions of difference and commonality. With a focus on individual and collective empowerment, she teaches digital storytelling in college and community-based settings.

In addition, she is an audio producer, working at WYSO 91.3 FM in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Trained through the 2013 WYSO Community Voices program, as the station's first Archives Fellow she created short documentary pieces using WYSO’s historical audio as source material. Rediscovered Radio was awarded a 2014 Public Radio News Directors, Inc. (PRNDI) Award for Best Series, and that same year she was recognized as an Association of Independents in Radio (AIR) New Voices Scholar. Recent projects include Senior Voices: Honoring the Stories of Dayton Elders, a partnership between the Dayton Metro Library, Rebuilding Together Dayton and WYSO, which began airing in early 2018, and West Dayton Stories, in which she is working with a group of community-based producers to tell stories in Ohio's sixth largest city. Her independent work has focused on a wide range of storytelling for the Goethe-Institut podcast, The Big Ponder, and includes pieces on, Flags, Home, and most recently, Grief.

While guiding the development of the WYSO Archives, Jocelyn is also engaged with national radio preservation efforts as a member of the African American and Civil Rights Radio Caucus of the Radio Preservation Task Force, a project of the Recorded Sound Preservation Board at the Library of Congress. She is the recipient of a National Recording Preservation Foundation grant to survey the archival holdings of HBCU radio station, and a Mellon Foundation grant which funds a major effort to preserve this important national legacy through the HBCU Radio Preservation Project. She received a 2022 Merit Award from the Society of Ohio Archivists for her work on the project and at WYSO.

Jocelyn serves on the board of the Third Coast International Audio Festival.