Staff

Nick Aquino

Nick Aquino

Staff Attorney, [email protected], (212) 219-1800 ext. 204

Staff Attorney Nick Aquino first joined Lawyers Alliance as a Legal Fellow sponsored by the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law at New York University School of Law. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 2022. While at HLS, Nick represented public housing tenants through the Harvard Tenant Advocacy Project and worked on transactional matters with Boston nonprofits and local musicians at the Transactional Law Clinics. He also interned for legal advocacy organizations Root & Rebound and the Detroit Justice Center. Prior to law school, Nick worked as an organizer and researcher in the fight against Detroit’s tax foreclosure crisis, which he continues to this day. He graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2017 with a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and minors in Afroamerican & African Studies and Urban Studies.

Pronouns: he/him

Favorite hobby: rock climbing