Christopher Rabb

Rabb earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1992 and a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006.[2] He worked as an aide to U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun (D-Ill.) and as a researcher and trainer at the White House Conference on Small Business during the Clinton administration.[2] He later taught at Temple University's Fox School of Business and Management and was a faculty member at the Institute for Strategic Leadership at Drexel University's LeBow College of Business.[2]

Rabb was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 2016 and re-elected in 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024; his campaign says he represents a majority-Black district of nearly 70,000 people across four neighborhoods in northwest Philadelphia.[2][5] He has served on the House Agriculture & Rural Affairs, Commerce, Finance and Judiciary committees, and in 2023-2024 chaired the Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Local Business and the Finance Committee's Subcommittee on Tax Modernization and Reform.[2][7] According to his campaign website, he has introduced more than 100 bills and resolutions, including a bill to establish a statewide police misconduct database, which became law in a later version, and a First Chance Trust Fund bill; he is a founding member of the PA Climate Caucus and House Progressive Caucus.[7]

Rabb describes himself as a registered Democrat who identifies as a Democratic Socialist, and his campaign says his great-great-grandfather founded Rabb's Meat Market in Columbus, Mississippi after Emancipation.[4][5] He won the May 19, 2026 Democratic primary for the open 3rd District seat with 44.6% (65,782 votes), ahead of Sharif Street, Ala Stanford and Shaun Griffith; retiring incumbent Dwight Evans was not a candidate.[2][3] His campaign said it aimed to strengthen workers' rights and expand access to healthcare and housing.[2][4][5] He won the November 3, 2026 general election with 93.6% of the vote to Dennis Mahoney's 6.4%, according to unofficial results reported by NBC News.[1]