Nick E. Smith is the First Deputy Public Advocate for the City of New York. He is a justice system and housing policy advocate and speaker. He's a proven change-maker. To read an extended career biography, click here.
As First Deputy Public Advocate, he is responsible for representing Public Advocate Williams and leading the policy, legislative, communications and community engagement divisions of the agency. More about the duties of the Public Advocate, a citywide elected ombudsperson/legislator, is found here.
Previously, Nick served as a Legislative Representative in the de Blasio Administration. In this role, he negotiated more than 200 pieces of legislation and advised city agency heads, including on budget affairs. For example, he was lead negotiator for a law that made all calls from incarcerated persons on Rikers Island free.
He's had a series of additional roles in and out of government:
Nick received his law degree from St. John's University School of Law and undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
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