Claire Robinson: Difference between revisions

Robinson was born in [[Jacksonville, Florida]] to an ethnically diverse family. As a child her family moved frequently but eventually settled in [[Memphis, Tennessee]]. Her grandparents held Ph.D.'s in education and her grandfather was a former president of the [[University of Memphis]]. Robinson herself graduated from the [[University of Memphis]] with a degree in communications.<ref name=fn/> She has stated on several occassions that she had a "wandering spirit" for a mother and was primarily raised by her French-speaking grandmother. She had one brother, [[Elijah Carpenter Moore]], to whom she was very close. The death of her brother,a senior at the [[University of Tennessee]], [[Knoxville]] and an [[intramural boxing]] champion, was the one who prompted her to move to New York after college and pursue her culinary dreams.