Nicole Lewis joined EPI in March 2022 as deputy communications director. Lewis has over two decades of communications and project management experience including in Congress, where she worked as a staff assistant to former Senator Charles Robb (D-Va.), and at Lehman Brothers and Altria Client Services, where she provided communications and project management support to senior leadership in their efforts to build coalition and legislative support from the Congressional Black Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and other advocacy organizations. She has also worked as a communications consultant on elections in the D.C. metro area.