About RISE United™
Resilient – Inspired – Strong – Empowered
RISE United™ is a creative and publishing company dedicated to building practical tools, thoughtful work, and enduring stories for women.
Founded by Robin L. Kennedy, RISE United exists at the intersection of structure and imagination. The work is shaped by years of experience in risk management, governance, and systems thinking, combined with a deep commitment to women’s safety, agency, and resilience. At its core, RISE United is about creating things that hold up—intellectually, emotionally, and practically.
Robin also writes under the name Lily Ann Fenwyn, where her work takes on a gentler, more reflective voice rooted in wonder, memory, and care through her Adventures on Sparkly Pond children's book series. Alongside this, she created the archetype Thora Greyhawk—a warrior figure shaped not as fantasy escape, but as a way to explore inheritance, resilience, and the strength women carry through generations. Thora Greyhawk will appear in the first volume of Warrior’s Daughter, being written now and is expected to release in Summer 2026.
Together, these voices allow Robin to write across a wide emotional and thematic range, from quiet belonging on Sparkly Pond to unapologetic defiance in Warrior's Daughter, while remaining grounded in the same core questions of safety, agency, and legacy.
The company’s work spans multiple forms. Through business tools and foundational resources, RISE United helps women establish clarity, boundaries, and protection in their work. Through publishing and storytelling, it explores legacy, power, and the systems that shape women’s lives. Each offering is designed to be intentional, usable, and durable rather than performative or trend-driven.
RISE United is also the home of EchoForge Press, its publishing imprint, and the developing digital gathering space known as The Great Hall. Together, these efforts reflect a shared philosophy: that women deserve access to clear structure, honest language, and creative work that respects their intelligence and lived experience.
RISE United is not built around urgency or hype. It is being developed deliberately, with care for both craft and consequence. The goal is not scale for its own sake, but work that endures—and supports women in building lives, businesses, and creative worlds that do the same.
We rise, together.
Meet Robin
Robin Kennedy | Writer. Warrior. Founder. Veteran. Builder.
Robin Kennedy is a Virginia-based writer, founder, and U.S. Marine Corps veteran whose work sits at the intersection of story, systems, and women’s lived experience. With more than three decades in risk management, cybersecurity, and executive IT leadership, she brings a rare blend of structural thinking and human insight to everything she builds.
Robin’s professional background spans military service, corporate leadership, and education. She holds a Master’s degree in Educational Technology and is certified in Risk and Information Systems. Over the years, she has led teams, built organizations, and worked inside the systems that shape power, safety, and silence—especially for women.
Today, Robin is an author and creative architect, writing about resilience, inheritance, and strength through narrative worlds that refuse to soften or simplify women’s reality. Her work is rooted in lived experience, disciplined structure, and a clear-eyed understanding of how systems operate—and how they can be challenged.
As the founder of RISE United LLC, Robin builds long-form creative projects, publishing infrastructure, and community spaces designed to last. Her work is unapologetic, grounded, and future-focused, driven by a belief that women don’t need permission to rise—only the tools, language, and space to remember who they are.