Rich Benjamin

RICH BENJAMIN is the author of Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History (Pantheon Books, 2025), a family memoir that doubles as a portrait of America. The book debuted to acclaim, including on NPR's "Fresh Air with Terry Gross" and MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber". In his first book, Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America, Rich embarked on a two-year, 26,909-mile, journey, immersing himself into the fastest-growing, whitest communities in America. The book was selected for an Editor’s Choice award from the American Library Association. Rich's writing appears in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and elsewhere, and he’s interviewed often in the international and US media, including on NPR, MSNBC, and PBS.

Rich is working on a project examining how demographic change and white racial status threat are impacting US culture, politics, and policymaking.