Nicole Tichon is the Tax and Budget Reform Advocate for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG). U.S. PIRG is a federation of state PIRGs, which are non-profit, non-partisan public interest advocacy groups that take on powerful interests on behalf of our members. Prior to joining U.S. PIRG, Nicole worked for several years for Deloitte Consulting, in the Federal Financial Services Integration and the State and Local Government practices. While at Deloitte, Nicole was a program and performance management specialist, providing process, technical and budget evaluation tools, as well as strategic planning services to agency executives at all levels of government. Nicole served as the Legislative Assistant for banking, labor and judiciary issues for the late Congressman Norm Sisisky of Virginia, as well as a Legislative Correspondent for Senator Carl Levin of Michigan. During her undergraduate studies, Nicole interned in the Executive Office of the President in both the Vice President and President’s speechwriting offices.
Nicole earned a Masters Degree in Public Policy and Management, concentrating in Financial Management, from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. Her undergraduate degrees include a Bachelor of Science in Communication and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Boston University, in Boston, MA.
