About Robyn

Rep. Robyn Porter has represented Connecticut’s 94th District since April 2014. She has been a member of both the Appropriations and Judiciary committees, and has co-chaired the Labor and Public Employees Committee since 2017.

Porter has authored and sponsored legislation that has strengthened gender pay equity laws, increased protections for domestic violence victims, and improved wages, benefits and working conditions for Connecticut’s working people.

In 2019, Porter co-chaired the committee that drafted, negotiated and passed a law that will give private-sector workers access to paid family and medical leave beginning in 2022.

Porter worked for the Communications Workers of America (CWA) for nearly two decades and is a longtime community activist, focusing on increasing public safety.

A native of New York, Porter has lived in New Haven since 2000 and has two adult children.

Spotlight Legislative Victories for Working People

An Act Concerning Paid Family and Medical Leave (S.B. 1)
An Act Increasing the Minimum Fair Wage (H.B. 5004)