Robert People

Robert People grew up in Baltimore, the second of four children raised by a single mother.¹ His mother worked while attending classes to become a nursing assistant, and his campaign biography recalls his childhood interest in becoming a doctor and later a teacher.¹

He followed his older brother into the Army, signing up during his final year of high school and leaving for training the day after his eighteenth birthday.¹ His service lasted twenty one years and included three combat tours, two in Iraq and one in Afghanistan.¹ His Army work included journalism and ammunition duties.²

After leaving the military in 2018, People moved into civilian work that included writing business proposals.² His professional background includes work as a proposal writer and coordinator for The RFP Success Company and as a senior enterprise proposal writer for iQor.² He is now the Democratic candidate challenging Republican Congresswoman Laurel Lee in Florida's 15th District.³

People supports Medicare for All, a ban on congressional stock trading and a clearer path to citizenship with due process protections.⁴ He also proposes raising the Social Security payroll tax cap and expanding access to free school meals.⁴ His environmental agenda includes clean energy investment, restored disaster assistance and stronger regulation of data centers.²