Robin Peguero

Robin Peguero is the son of immigrants—a Dominican father and Ecuadorian mother who met while serving in the U.S. Army. His family settled in Hialeah when he was five, living in cramped conditions before finding stability in South Florida. His mother delivered mail for the U.S. Postal Service while his father taught Spanish in Miami public schools. At Harvard College, he became an editor of The Harvard Crimson and interned at The Miami Herald. At Harvard Law School, he served as editor of the Harvard Law Review and published three academic pieces on stop-and-frisk, criminal immigration consequences, and jury nullification. He spent seven years as a Miami-Dade homicide prosecutor, rising to division chief and trying 30 jury cases to verdict. He then served as Investigative Counsel on the January 6 Committee, leading witness interviews and co-writing sections of the final report, before becoming Chief of Staff to Rep. Glenn Ivey. Now a law professor at St. Thomas University and published novelist, he is challenging Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar in Florida's heavily Latino 27th District.

First-generation American. Dominican father and Ecuadorian mother who met while serving in the U.S. Army. The family experienced economic hardship, living in a cramped basement apartment before relocating to South Florida when Robin was five. Mother was a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier, father was a Spanish teacher in Miami public schools. Raised in Hialeah, a working-class, predominantly Cuban American Miami suburb.