Robyn Ochs (born 1958) is an American bisexual activist, professional speaker, and workshop leader. Her primary fields of interest are gender, sexuality, identity, and coalition building. She is the editor of the Bisexual Resource Guide (published annually from 1990 to 2002), Bi Women Quarterly, and the anthology Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World. Ochs, along with Professor Herukhuti, co-edited the anthology Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men. Ochs has appeared on a number of television talk shows, including Donahue, Rolanda, Maury Povich, Women Aloud, Real Personal, Hour Magazine and The Shirley Show, to discuss issues relating to bisexuality. She has also been in Seventeen and Newsweek. She describes herself as Jewish, but not religious. Education Ochs has a Bachelor of Arts in Language and Culture, Latin American Studies from the State University of New York, Purchase. Additionally, she has a Certificate of Special Studies in Administration and Management and a Masters of Education from Harvard University. Work in academia Ochs teaches courses on topics including LGBT history & politics in the United States, the politics of sexual orientation, and the experiences of those who transgress the binary categories of gay/straight, masculine/feminine, black/white and/or male/female. She has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johnson State College, and Tufts University. Ochs worked as an administrator at Harvard University from 1983 until she retired in 2009. While there, she co-founded and co-chaired the LGBT Faculty and Staff Group, co-founded and facilitated the LGBTQ Lunches, a monthly lunch series for lesbian, bi, queer and trans women faculty and staff, and served as the faculty advisor for QSA, Harvard's undergraduate student LGBTQ organization. Work as a bisexual activist Ochs helped found the Boston Bisexual Network in 1983, and the Bisexual Resource Center in 1985. In 1987, The East Coast Bisexual Network established the first Bisexual History Archives with Ochs' initial collection; archivist Clare Morton hosted researchers. The group became the Bisexual Resource Center in 1993. In 2002 she delivered the first bi-focused keynote during the National Association of Lesbian and Gay Addiction Professionals. In 2004 and in 2007, she keynoted the Midwest Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Campus Conference, the largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender student conference in the United States. Ochs has served on the Board of Directors of MassEquality, Massachusetts's statewide equality organization, from 2004-2016. She has written frequently on bisexuality and LGBT rights and her writings have been published