Rob Peace: The Yale Biochemistry Star Who Balanced $100K Marijuana Sales with a Fight for Justice in Netflix Movie
Sunita Somvanshi
At Yale, nobody knew their molecular biophysics classmate had quietly built a $100K marijuana empire while maintaining honors grades - until now.
From being called 'the professor' at age 3 to becoming Yale's top weed dealer: What pushed this brilliant mind to walk both paths?
Daily prison calls about homework assignments shaped Rob Peace's childhood, while his father Skeet served life for a double homicide that rocked their Newark community in 1987.
A St. Benedict's alumnus wrote a blank check for Rob's Yale education, where he captained the water polo team and worked in Yale Medical School's cancer lab - all while running his secret enterprise.
Rob Peace's $100K marijuana earnings went into fighting his father's murder conviction, but brain cancer claimed Skeet's life in prison in 2006.
After graduating Yale with honors in 2002, Peace returned to teach biology at his alma mater St. Benedict's, juggled airport work, and continued dealing marijuana.
Over 400 mourners from Yale to Newark gathered when Peace was killed at 30 in a grow house - the shooter remains unidentified.
Director Chiwetel Ejiofor's new Netflix adaptation features Jay Will and Mary J. Blige, with Peace's mother Jackie confirming: "damn, she got me right there.
Netflix's "Rob Peace" confronts how academic excellence collided with systemic barriers, told through 300+ hours of interviews with those who knew him best.