Alaura D. Rich is a writer and editorial professional whose work explores class, care, gender, and power through narrative nonfiction and public-interest storytelling. Raised in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, she draws on lived experience shaped by generational poverty, limited access, and the uneven distribution of opportunity. Her professional background spans public service, policy, and advocacy. She has worked in state government, political campaigns, and nonprofit organizations focused on expanding equity and opportunity, including with Planned Parenthood of Northern New England during the passage of Vermont’s Reproductive Liberty Amendment (Proposition 5).
She currently serves on the Advisory Council of the New York Birth Control Access Project and works as a Program Coordinator at New York University School of Law’s Public Interest Law Center, where she supports students pursuing careers in government and public-interest law. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Community and International Development from the University of Vermont, where she received the Lawrence K. Forcier Outstanding Senior Award, and her Master of Public Administration in 2024, including graduate coursework in health policy at New York University Wagner School of Public Service.
Alongside her professional work, Rich is the founder and editor of A Rich Perspective, an independent writing project publishing essays and commentary on class, care, gender, poverty, and power. Her writing connects personal narrative with broader structural questions, with a particular focus on the stories people are taught not to tell. She is currently at work on her debut memoir, A Rich Man’s World, an exploration of girlhood, generational poverty, and survival in rural Vermont—and the long, uneven path between where she began and where she is now.
