Robert Sanchez is a two-time kidney transplant recipient, advocate, and social researcher working at the intersection of health equity, community power, and lived experience. He currently serves as a Social Clinical Interviewer at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and as Director of The Jentosy Project a where he leads national efforts to expand access to living kidney donation in underserved communities.

With a bachelor's degree in behavioral science, a master's in theology and professional studies, and clinical coursework from the Silberman School of Social Work, Sanchez brings both academic rigor and human truth to systems that have historically excluded patient voices. His work bridges research, policy, and community engagement—ensuring that those most affected by kidney disease are not merely studied, but heard.

His advocacy is inseparable from his lived experience. Having navigated two kidney transplants, he uses his lived experience to educate and bring awareness to spaces that can be improved. He currently serves on the NIH-funded study Structural Racism as a Third Hit on Kidney Outcomes of Black Individuals with APOL1 Risk Alleles and contributes to the PCORnet INSIGHT Clinical Research Network, helping reshape how equity, affordability, and care quality are measured in the United States.

Beyond medicine, Sanchez is a multidisciplinary artist and co-founder of Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA), the groundbreaking theater program at Sing Sing Correctional Facility that inspired the critically acclaimed, three-time Oscar-nominated film Sing Sing. A writer, poet, and playwright, he uses storytelling as both resistance and repair. Born in the Bronx and raised in East Harlem, he continues to live and create in the Bronx—rooted in purpose, accountability, and transformation.