Nicole D. Porter

Director of Advocacy

Nicole D. Porter is the Director of Advocacy and coordinates state legislative and public education campaigns on The Sentencing Project’s criminal justice reform priorities.  She manages The Sentencing Project’s state and local advocacy efforts on sentencing reform, voting rights, and eliminating racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Porter works closely with advocates at the state and local level in planning their media and advocacy strategies to advance criminal justice reforms.

Porter is the former director of the ACLU’s Prison & Jail Accountability Project (PJAP). PJAP’s mission was to monitor the conditions of confinement in Texas jails and prisons. Porter advocated in the Texas legislature to promote felony enfranchisement reforms, to address prison rape, and improve prison medical care. Previously, Porter also worked for the Appleseed Foundation, National Women’s Political Caucus, and the American Prospect Magazine. Porter graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Master's Degree in Public Affairs from the LBJ School. Her master’s thesis addressed exploring self employment as an economic strategy among formerly incarcerated African Americans. Porter received her BA in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. She also studied African Politics at the University of Ghana, West Africa.

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