Co-founder of More Than Our Crimes, Rob grew up in southeast D.C. and was convicted of murder at the age of 16; he was not the actual shooter in the crime but was present and thus judged to be as guilty as the one who was. He is serving a sentence of 30 years to life, but has used that time to read voraciously; write the first draft of a book; earn an associate degree in business administration; and—when he returned to the D.C. jail for nearly two years in a petition for early release, become both a mentor for the Young Men Emerging program and a 4.0 participant in the Georgetown Prison Scholars program. He is confined today to the U.S. penitentiary in Coleman, Florida.