page_title: Heather Robinson
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Heather Robinson / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Heather Robinson, Carrie Fisher, Jan Robinson at Carrie Fisher's 50th birthday celebration.
context_page_description: Heather Robinson Ross is an American screenwriter, film producer and author.
context_section_description: In 2004, Carrie Fisher convinced Robinson to write a screenplay based on her life as a teenager living with a single mom. Robinson sold her first feature script, The Perfect Man, to Universal Studios that starred Hilary Duff, Heather Locklear and Chris Noth. The film was based on her teenage years in Tucson, Arizona. In 2007 she worked for Oprah Winfrey and Harpo Productions in Chicago, Illinois.
  In 2008 Robinson and her mother, Jan, remodeled the New Beginnings for Women & Children shelter, through their organization, Refused Reused.
  Robinson has worked through her own organization Refused Reused in conjunction with the U.S. House of Representatives to help people and animals in shelters. Robinson has donated over 200 Pounds of leather to the Boy Scouts of Southern Arizona for their leather merit program. After taking time off to care for her grandmother who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Robinson has found herself touring the film festival market as a Co-Producer on Dog Power a documentary following dog-powered sports such as the international phenomenon of canicross, bike & scooterjoring, skijoring, cart, sprint and middle distance sled dog racing.
  In December 2018, Robinson was elected to serve on the board of The National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect EndCAN.org in Denver, Colorado.
caption: Heather Robinson, Carrie Fisher, Jan Robinson at Carrie Fisher's 50th birthday celebration.
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