Laura Collins (she/her)

Laura Collins is the Culture Change and Narrative Manager at Family Values at Work (FV@W), where she works collaboratively to shift our cultural landscape toward one rooted in the fundamental right to give and receive care. A graduate of Indiana University, Laura’s approach is informed by her experience growing up in a working-class home, where she saw firsthand how economic community trauma is a direct result of policy choices—a realization that has fueled her decade-long career in the movement.

Laura works to build the narrative capacity of movement leaders across the FV@W network, and is the architect and facilitator of the Caring Out Loud Fellowship and the Grassroots Narrative Change Working Group. By expanding the understanding of what a story can do, Laura coaches organizations to champion storytelling as a force for culture change, an essential foundation for winning the transformative economic policies we have sought for over a century.

Based in Cary, North Carolina, Laura is an alumni of the 2025 CUNY ROCC movement leadership fellowship. In her off-hours, she enjoys hiking, genealogy, and tending to her houseplants.