Rigel Robinson

is a recent UC Berkeley graduate, a college affordability enthusiast, and was recently elected to the Berkeley City Council. Though he was born in Arizona and raised in Missouri, California has always been his home. College brought him closer to his extended family, and also to the fight for accessible and quality education. As the External Affairs Vice President of the Associated Students of the University of California, Rigel was instrumental in fighting the UC’s proposed tuition increase in 2018, lobbying the UC Regents, legislature, and the governor until students won the first UC tuition decrease in almost 20 years.