Rashad Robinson was the president of Color of Change, an advocacy group.
14 Facts About Rashad Robinson
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Rashad Robinson has served as a board member of RaceForward, Demos, State Voices, and currently sits on the board of the Hazen Foundation.
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In 2011, Rashad Robinson became the president of Color of Change, an advocacy organization founded after Hurricane Katrina with the purpose of assisting black communities in America.
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Rashad Robinson organized many of the organization's initiatives, including a campaign to pull funding from the American Legislative Exchange Council.
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In September of 2024, Rashad Robinson resigned one week after the National Labor Relations Board "ruled that Color Of Change violated federal labor law by unlawfully laying off 54 employees without bargaining" in 2023.
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From 2010 to 2014, Rashad Robinson was selected as one of "The Root 100," a list of emerging and influential African Americans under 45.
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Rashad Robinson regularly appears in the media, including NPR, MSNBC, CNN, PBS, and BET.
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Rashad Robinson has a monthly column in the US edition of The Guardian.
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Rashad Robinson's editorials have been published by The New York Times, Huffington Post, The Washington Post, and USA Today.
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On September 25,2020, Rashad Robinson was named as one of the 25 members of the "Real Facebook Oversight Board", an independent monitoring group over Facebook.
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Rashad Robinson grew up in Riverhead, Long Island, and graduated from Riverhead High School in 1997.
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Rashad Robinson began practicing activism as a high school student when he led a protest against a local convenience store that barred students from entering the store during their lunch break.
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Rashad Robinson became involved with the NAACP while in high school.
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Rashad Robinson attended Marymount University where he obtained a bachelor's degree in political science.