A journalist from The New York Times is doing a profile piece on me. They’d like to hear the full perspective on me.

Dear Friends,
A journalist from The New York Times is doing a profile piece on me.
It seems they are really desiring to leave no important rock unturned.
I’m grateful for this as I have deep respect for journalism that gets to the truth of the matter.
The journalist would like to hear from people who have something negative to say about me.
So, this is me calling out to anyone who has something negative that they’d like to share with the The New York Times journalist.
You can also send an email to NYTstory@robingreenfield.org. All messages will be forwarded to her. If you’d like to potentially have a call with her, please leave your contact information.
I warmly welcome you to share in the comments here too.

I have just three simple requests to anyone who takes the opportunity to share. Please:
-Tell the truth. Share transparently, openly and honestly.
-Share context so the information can be most useful for her journalism.
-Try to see me as the full human that I am, just like you.

My life is an experiment with truth and this story is another opportunity to deepen into truth and transparency. I’m sure this will hurt, but I’ll take the painful truth over delusional bliss any day.

I’d like to expand on ““something negative to say about me” with a few possible examples: an interaction with me that was painful for you, where you felt disempowered, or where your need for mutuality, compassion or to be understood was not met. Perhaps your perspective was that I am not living up to what I profess to. Anything that is your truth Dear Friend…

Love,
Robin

PS. If you have any experience or story (positive, negative, neutral) to tell about our interaction, I welcome you to share that as a comment here as well.

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UPDATE 8/31/2026 9:00 AM CT

Part 1 of 3
Hello Dear Friends,
Thank you to each of you for sharing your stories and thoughts.
You are my fuel to continue on this journey of living in harmony and service to Earth and all life we share this home with.

Here are a few responses to some of your thoughts/questions.

I see a lot of people labeling the New York Times as something purely evil. I encourage you not to get sucked into polarization. There are many journalists who exist today who work for mainstream publications yet exist in incredible integrity.

I see many comments that assume that this journalist is only looking for the negative. This is not remotely the case. They have spent much time on this story and have heard an incredible amount of positive stories about me. They’d like to hear the full perspective, to paint the full picture. If you jumped to the idea that they are only looking for the negative, I encourage you to look up a concept called “negativity bias”. In short “Negativity bias is an automatic human tendency to give more weight, attention, and memory to negative experiences and information than to positive ones of equal value.

I am so grateful to be the subject of a piece that wants to really explore who I am, the seen and unseen side. Mahatma Gandhi has been one of my greatest influences and he said “let my life be my message.” So, to share my message in depth, requires understanding me and seeing all sides of me.

I trust this journalist so greatly that I am willing to put all the information into their reach and let them decide what story to tell.
At the age of 40, this is still a challenging exercise for me, but as each year and decade passes, as I heal and shed all of my past and fully embody the human I desire to be, this will become my daily norm and I will know no other way.

Many of you stated that you believe that there are no negative stories about me. I can be the first to say that in fact there is. Hundreds of people, perhaps thousands, have had interactions with me that stimulated sadness, pain, frustration, disharmony, disempowerment and more. I struggle greatly with communication. It is both one of my great gifts and my “Kryptonite.”
I deeply mourn many of the times in which I communicated or acted in a way that did not enrich someone’s life, but rather left them in pain.
I write about this more extensively in these articles:

My Experience with Nonviolent Communication (NVC) / Compassionate Communication:
robingreenfield.org/nvc

What to Know When Working for Robin Greenfield:
robingreenfield.org/whattoknow
The people who have suffered the most through my communication are those that have worked with me through the nonprofit I run. I often contemplate giving up on managing a team of people because I struggle so much to create a truly uplifting environment of service. There are many people who have volunteered with me, who have experienced pain in our interactions.

As I stated in the post, I am not asking for comments form people on the internet who don’t know me personally. I interact with thousands of people out in the world, and this message is to these humans who I’ve had real life interactions with.

One person said “I’m sorry this is happening to you.”
Nothing is “happening” to me. I am a free human being, on a quest for truth and I am joyously and willingly directing these comments to the journalist. Although there are other projects I would like to be spending time on right now, I chose to allocate some of my time for this experiment in truth. This is one small practice in my life-long aspiration towards truth and transparency.
One small note as to why I did not share the journalists name or give their contact information. I did not let them know that I’d be doing this public post. I simply decided to do this on my own. I want to be conscious and respectful of their time and thus I will put it all into a single document for her to easily read. I trust myself that I will not filter anything out, no matter what it says. I’d also like to read these comments to receive feedback, and perhaps even heal any wounds that arise.

Love,
Robin