Nick currently serves as the Client Voice and Community Impact (CVCI) Coordinator for the Washington State Office of Civil Legal Aid’s Children’s Representation Program. In this role, he ensures the active and meaningful engagement of young people with lived experience to meet statutory directives and support the program’s overall intended impact. As the CVCI Coordinator, Nick also serves as a voice for individuals impacted by the legal system—both within the Children’s Representation Program and in collaboration with outward-facing community partners.
Prior to this role, Nick spent two years working in youth and young adult lived experience engagement, focusing on legislative advocacy for foster care and youth homelessness in Washington State. In his first year, he and his team of lived experts successfully passed legislation that addressed a gap in the state’s RCW. This gap had previously resulted in youth being turned away from emergency shelters when their parents couldn’t be located or didn’t give consent. Following this legislative success, Nick was promoted to oversee the organization’s statewide outreach and engagement efforts. In that role, he successfully hired and developed a full team of regional coordinators to lead lived experience engagement among youth and young adults, continuing the organization’s advocacy work at the local and state levels. Nick’s passion for lived experience engagement is rooted in his own background, having experienced foster care and housing instability as a child.