Civic Enterprises
Policy Analyst
Laura Moore
Since coming to Civic Enterprises in 2009, Laura Moore has worked on a variety of issues relating to youth development, from high school and college completion to the role of mentoring in ensuring that more young people grow up to be successful adults. She is co-author of Raising Their Voices, the fourth in a series of reports on the causes and curses of dropout. The report brings together the voices of students, teachers, and parents to explore the divergent perspectives of these three constituencies that were unearthed in previous research. Prior to becoming a policy analyst at Civic Enterprises, Moore served as an English as a foreign language teacher in Ecuador through WorldTeach; she also served as one of the organization's program assistants.
Moore graduated with honors from Harvard in 2009 with a B.A. in Social Studies. Her undergraduate coursework focused on the relationship between race, social inequality, and identity. She also served as an executive editor and reporter for The Harvard Crimson, for which she covered the achievement gap at Cambridge Public Schools, in addition to the short and long term effects of the university's expansion into the nearby Allston neighborhood.
