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Book Robin Rue Simmons

Architect of America's First Municipal-Funded Reparations Program

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QUICK FACTS 
  • Founder & Executive Director of FirstRepair

  • Former 5th Ward Alderman of Evanston, Illinois
  • Commissioner of National African-American Reparations Commission (NAARC)
  • Member of the Legislative Committee of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA)
  • Former Fellow at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference – McCormick Theological Seminary
  • Featured on Black Enterprise, The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, The Guardian, ABC’s Nightline, and CNN
HONORS & AWARDS 
  • Urban One Honors’ Reparations Ambassador Award
  • Dearborn Realtist Board’s Vernon Jarrett Legislative Award
  • Democratic Party of Evanston’s Liz Tisdahl Award
  • Route Fifty Elected Official of the Year Award
  • Realtist Women’s Council of Illinois’ Community Impact Award
  • Family Focus Community Leadership Imani Award