She works in the Immigrant Justice Project, where she litigates civil rights and employment cases on behalf of immigrants and refugees in the Southeast and advocates for policies and laws that improve immigrants’ working conditions and respect immigrants’ rights. Prior to joining SPLC in 2014, Rich worked at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid in El Paso, representing farmworkers, trafficking victims and other vulnerable Texans in state and federal court. She also clerked for the Honorable Richard A. Paez on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Rich received her law degree from U.C. Berkeley School of Law and her MPP from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, both in 2011. Prior to attending graduate school, Rich served for two years in the Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa, and received her B.A. from Scripps College in 2003.