Dub is a microbiologist on the faculty of Rutgers University. Her mother was nine months pregnant when her parents fled Nazi Germany for Brussels, where she was born in 1938. Dub now herself lives in a co-op apartment, but is a long time volunteer with the Riverside Edge Comne neighborhood Association. When asked to comment on the mayor's rhetoric toward her, she said: "I want to talk about what the mayor has done as an enemy of the tenants"