Production Manager, NU Press
By day, Morris (Dino) Robinson is the Production Manager at Northwestern University Press. Prior to his joining Northwestern University Press, he held creative positions in advertising and operated his own design firm. His independent research led to the establishment of Shorefront, an organization he pioneered in 1995 that documents the African American experience on the North Shore. Within Shorefront, he has written three books, produces the Shorefront Journal, hosted lectures, assembled several traveling exhibits, and has built its archives from a few news clippings to over 275 linear feet of photographs, documents and ephemera for public use.
He is past Board President of the Evanston History Center, Evanston Neighborhood Conference and Co-founder of the Organization of Black Designers, Chicago Chapter (now Osmosis). Since 2010, Dino is a participant, and later board member of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium.
Dino has appeared on WTTW Chicago Tonight, Channel 7 and 5 evening news, various local Cable Access TV, WBEZ, WNUA and WNUR radio, Chicago Tribune Magazine, The Chicago Reader and various local North Shore publications.
Dino, through Shorefront, is the recipient of several awards, including the “Award for Excellence” from the Illinois Association of Museums and the “Diversity Award” from the Society of American Archivists. In 2017 he was presented with the Key to the City of Evanston.
On February 9, 2021, the city of Evanston will name a part of Church St. after Dino Robinson for his work preserving the North Shore’s Black history.