Rob is a 34-year-old African American male, Asheville native and Community Activist. Rob is a formerly justice-involved individual with first-hand experiences related to the inequities that are congruent with the disparities that he now works passionately to unravel. Rob has facilitated and been a keynote speaker in over 4 dozen community related events. Rob is the recipient of CoThinkk’s 2020 community leader award, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Association of Asheville & Buncombe County’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, 2021 Service Award, the Peacemaker of 2020 in Western North Carolina award, the Tzedek Social Justice Fund’s 2020 Impact Award,and Fayetteville P.A.C.T. 's Certificate of Appreciation. As a public speaker, team collaborator,and systems changeadvisor, his achievements are directly related to empowerment, strategizing,and support that redirects power to communities of color. Rob uses his lived experience in collaboration with his native connections to inform, educate,and mobilize community toproduce systems change. Rob believes that true transitional justice requires redistribution of power and fights to place vulnerable and disenfranchised community members in a decision-making position over processes where they are the most impacted demographic.