Biography

Rob Henderson is the best-selling author of Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class. He grew up in foster homes in Los Angeles and in the rural town of Red Bluff, California. After enlisting in the U.S. Air Force at the age of seventeen, he subsequently attended Yale on the GI Bill and was then awarded the Gates Cambridge Scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge (St. Catharine’s College), where he obtained a PhD in psychology in 2022. Rob’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe, among other outlets, and his newsletter is sent each week to more than fifty thousand subscribers.

Previous Education

Community College of the Air Force
Yale University