Nico comes to CenterLink with nearly twenty years of experience in community organizing, non-profit management, training, and organizational development with grassroots leaders working for queer liberation, racial justice and trans rights. His prior work has included participation in efforts to fight mass incarceration, secure protections for undocumented immigrants, and end a public transportation system policy that discriminated against trans and gender non-conforming passengers in Philadelphia. As the former Executive Director and lead trainer with Training for Change, he founded a fellowship program for BIPOC organizers and led hundreds of workshops to promote skills and analysis among people working for social change. He's supported several major LGBTQ+ and gender justice organizations as a consultant and facilitator, including the National LGBT Task Force, Planned Parenthood of Southern New England, the Trans Justice Funding Project, the Third Wave Fund and the Transgender Law Center, and many local projects across the U.S. Most recently he served as the Executive Director of PeoplesHub, an organization focused on promoting accessibility practices and the use of online spaces for organizing and political education.