How she works
Christine builds campaign strategy, coordinates field operations, recruits and develops teams, strengthens coalitions and helps organizations move from ideas to action.
Bread & Roses Project / About
Christine Nicols
Founder and Principal of Bread & Roses Project. Progressive campaign manager, political consultant, grassroots organizer, and advocate working across electoral campaigns, legislation, social movements, and community leadership.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Organizing that is practical, personal and accountable
Christine Nicols founded Bread & Roses Project to connect progressive campaign strategy with the hands-on organizing that makes change possible. Her experience spans campaign management, political consulting, field operations, legislative advocacy, event coordination, and direct community support.
Why Bread & Roses
Bread is the material security people need. Roses are the dignity, freedom and joy they deserve. The project connects immediate work, such as campaign logistics or a community event, with longer-term movement building.
ELECTIONS & POLICY
Campaign Management & Political Strategy
Christine has led electoral work and participated in issue-based organizing involving volunteers, coalitions, elected officials and public campaigns.
Selected Campaign & Political Strategy Experience
Campaign management and political strategy for Leslye Oquendo-Thomas in Westchester County Legislative District 17 and Joshua Bristol in Brooklyn’s 9th Congressional District. Additional work includes Michael Goldfarb in Brooklyn’s 9th Congressional District and Gabriel Cornejo in Nevada’s 1st Congressional District, as well as organizing alongside Delgado and Mamdani teams and with Diana Moreno and Abeer.
Colorado Turnout Project
Christine worked alongside the Colorado Turnout Project, including designing campaign literature supporting Manny Rutinel for Colorado’s 8th Congressional District and Phil Weiser for governor. Her work connects field organizing with practical, voter-facing communication.
Working Families Party, Working Families Guarantee & Tax the Rich
Working Families Party organizing, candidate engagement and coalition work across upstate New York, alongside advocacy for affordability, public investment and tax fairness. Christine has brought organizers and community members into conversations with candidates and lawmakers about the issues that affect working families.
Climate and survivor-centered policy work
Climate and environmental justice organizing, public advocacy related to the Child Victims Act and survivor protections, and community mobilization around Albany policy debates.
Immigrant rights and rapid response
Immigrant-rights education, rapid response, legal observation and assistance with Haitian asylum declarations. Christine has also supported Dignity Not Detention advocacy against immigration-detention contracts in New York, connecting public mobilization with protections for immigrant families. Learn about the statewide campaign.
EVENTS, SPEAKING & LEADERSHIP
Bringing people together, moving ideas forward
The visible event is only part of the work. Effective organizing also requires agendas, permissions, volunteers, communications, safety plans, and trusted people to make it happen.
More Than 50 Community Actions & Events
As SWWPA co-chair, Christine coordinated more than 50 rallies, marches, memorials, community forums and public events, bringing together speakers, volunteers, performers, venues, vendors and community partners.
Community Fundraising & Benefit Events
Christine has organized community benefits and fundraising events, including a basket-and-raffle fundraiser for a child facing a life-threatening illness in the Glens Falls area. The effort brought together donations, local supporters, event planning and family-centered community support.
Speaking & Press
Christine has delivered public remarks, spoken at high schools and colleges, and led workshops on organizing, advocacy, civic engagement, and related issues. Her speaking experience also includes rallies, campaign events, community forums, and press interviews.
Building the Next Generation for Change
Workshops and presentations at high schools, colleges, and community gatherings, alongside Protesting 101, Know Your Rights, volunteer organizing, field leadership, and rapid-response education.
Community & Coalition Relationships
Building relationships among grassroots groups, labor allies, advocacy organizations and local leaders, and turning those relationships into coordinated campaigns, turnout operations and public action.
CHILDREN, FAMILIES & INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
Care, education and community support
Christine’s work with children and families is a separate professional practice, but it informs how she approaches organizing: listen carefully, adapt to real needs, and build systems people can use.
Specialized child-behavior and family support
Individualized behavioral supports, calming tools, learning materials and tutoring support for children with varied needs, including disabilities and learning differences, through her work as a child-behavior and family-support specialist.
Educational and arts programming
Experience in child-focused enrichment and coordinating arts and crafts in a Montessori setting, alongside hands-on program planning and family communication.
Community partnerships
Christine has helped build community support networks through Helping Others Onward, mutual aid and the performing arts, including Sing in Solidarity.
LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY WORK
Organizing does not begin or end with an election.
Christine's background also includes nonprofit development, community advocacy, political education, inclusive programming for children and families, and volunteer-led movements.
SWWPA · Co-Chair
Helped organize more than 50 community actions and events, coordinating speakers, volunteers, permits, venues, local officials, outreach and fundraising.
Helping Others Onward · Past nonprofit leadership
Co-founded Helping Others Onward and contributed to its early nonprofit development, organizational planning, partnerships, and survivor-centered community support. This is previous work, not a current Bread & Roses program.
Showing Up for Racial Justice
Helped organize opportunities for anti-racism training and participated in organizer education, supporting local volunteers and partners.
NYC Democratic Socialists of America
Participates in grassroots organizing, political education, outreach and community solidarity activities.
Friendship Circle
Taught arts and crafts for children with disabilities and different learning needs, creating lessons and supporting inclusive community programming.
Voice of the Children Foundation · Current board service
Currently serves on the Board of Directors of Voice of the Children Foundation, an independent nonprofit supporting children and families in Haiti. This work is separate from Bread & Roses Project.
LET’S CONNECT
Work together
For campaign operations, event coordination, strategic outreach, speaking engagements, advocacy partnerships or related work, get in touch with Bread & Roses Project.
Contact
Email [email protected] with an outline of your project, location, timing and the support you need.
Available for public speaking, presentations and workshops at high schools and colleges, panel discussions, campaign events, advocacy programs, and event facilitation. Christine also supports candidates and advocates with speeches, talking points, and media preparation.
Speaking, facilitating and preparing others to lead.
Available for public speaking, panel discussions, campaign events, advocacy programs, trainings and event facilitation. Christine's work also includes preparing candidates and advocates with speech support, talking points and media training.