Rob Lipton

Robert Lipton has been a long time east bay resident and a Richmond resident for 6 years. He is a poet laureate of Richmond, (2017-2019), he helps run the swim program at the Richmond Plunge and is an energetic member of the Richmond Progressive Alliance, working on rent control and related issues. (he formally debated this issue in several venues during the campaign.) He has a day job as a spatial epidemiologist studying violence and social disorganization, having been on faculty at the Harvard Medical School and a professor at the University of Michigan. He was the LA director of fairness and accuracy in reporting (FAIR) during the first gulf war and has been a long time member of a Jewish Voice for Peace.