A four-year Senior from Andover, Robin Hessman started her time at PA a day student, but, let’s face it, most of us thought she was a boarder all four years. Robin is now an award-winning documentary filmmaker, a producer, and an Oscar voter. As with so many of us, her time at PA exposed her to people, places, ideas that transformed her world. A self-proclaimed theater kid, Robin quoted Kevin Heelan who advised that at Andover, “You can do anything you want.” That same spirit continues with her today in taking risks, starting a new company in her fifties, and not being afraid to fail, a theme in our lives. Robin noted that we all had a sense of agency and determination early on in our lives which may have led to her producing Sesame Street in Moscow at the ripe old age of 22. Like many of us, she’s still trying to figure it all out.
