Rob Robinson
Community Organizer | Human Rights Advocate | Adjunct Professor, Parsons School of Design
Rob Robinson is a nationally and internationally recognized community organizer and human rights advocate whose work is rooted in his own lived experience with homelessness in New York City. A powerful voice for housing justice, Rob works to transform the way people understand their relationship to land and housing—both as essential human rights and as tools for dignity and self-determination.
He is the USA-Canada Coordinator for the International Alliance of Inhabitants, a global network of over 12,000 members advancing the Zero Evictions Platform. Rob collaborates with social movements across the world, including the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB) and the Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil, Abahlali baseMjondolo in South Africa, and the Platform of People Affected by Mortgages (PAH) in Spain. His work is grounded in international human rights law through his longtime involvement with the U.S. Human Rights Network.
In the United States, Rob organizes with frontline communities on intersecting issues such as housing displacement, gentrification, poverty and debt, digital access, and police violence targeting the poor. A gifted educator, he is a regular guest lecturer at the City University of New York Graduate Center and has spoken at law school human rights institutes across the country, including the University of Miami, Northeastern, UC Berkeley, and Harvard. He currently serves as an adjunct professor of Urbanism in the Design and Urban Ecologies program at Parsons School of Design at The New School.
