Rob Peace

Film follows a young man who grew up in a crime-ridden section of Newark, NY and later graduated from Yale with degrees in molecular biophysics and biochemistry earned on scholarship. Peace led a dual life living in the insular world of academia and as a lab researcher of cancer and infectious diseases, while at the same time making six figures from the sale of marijuana.

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Chiwetel Ejiofor Talks “The Connection to Community” In His Sophomore Sundance Feature ‘Rob Peace’

"He felt like a character of my time," says Ejiofor of Peace, the real-life Yale biochemistry student who wanted to return to his native Orange, New Jersey.