Robin Wilt
Robin Wilt is a public servant, progressive activist, mother of three, and real estate broker. From 2018-2025, she served as the second and longest-serving African American ever elected to Brighton Town Council, where she chaired the Community Services Committee, co-Chaired the Finance and Administrative Services Committee, and served as Town Board Liaison to the Sustainability Oversight Committee and her brainchild, the Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Advisory (IDEA) Board. She has been married to husband Nicholas for 30 years. Together, they have three children, Benjamin Harris, Samuel Taylor, and Camille Statice-Elizabeth.
She is a founding Board Member of the Dartmouth Women’s Rugby Club, a founding member of the Greater Rochester Association of REALTORS ® Black Caucus, served on the Board and on the Racial Justice Initiative of Citizen Action New York, is on the Organizational Committee of Local Progress NY, part of the Leadership Council of the Women’s Caucus of Local Progress, as well as a member of the Brighton Central School District PTSA, Brighton Chamber of Commerce, and the Brighton Believes Council.
In addition, Ms. Wilt served on the Institute for Poverty Studies and Economic Development (IPSED) at SUNY Brockport. Ms. Wilt is an alumna of Dartmouth College, where she studied Government, and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honor Society. Robin’s entrée into politics was as the co-founder of the Genesee Valley chapter of Progressive Democrats of America, a grassroots organization dedicated to working inside and outside the Democratic Party to advance progressive causes. PDA-GV organized voter registration drives; town halls; candidate meet-and-greets; and petition drives. Robin’s efforts were recognized by Metro Justice at their 2009 Annual Dinner.
More recently, Ms. Wilt was elected as a Pledged Delegate to Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic National Convention, and led the Crescent Map Coalition that successfully compelled Monroe County to draw its first-ever Voting Right Act compliant map for its County Legislators.
Robin hopes to leverage her background as a progressive activist to continue to increase civic engagement and enhance access to government and programming for all residents of the Greater Rochester community.
