The heart of NYU Wagner's programs is our faculty. An amalgam of full-time, clinical/research/visiting, and adjunct professors, they are outstanding teachers, expert researchers and committed practitioners.
The heart of NYU Wagner's programs is our faculty. An amalgam of full-time, clinical/research/visiting, and adjunct professors, they are outstanding teachers, expert researchers and committed practitioners.
The Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service is home to research and policy centers, institutes, and initiatives that focus on solving urban problems and strengthening public policy and public service nationally and around the world.
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Nicole A. Gordon has served for over twenty-five years in government and not-for-profit leadership positions. She was the founding Executive Director of New York City's pioneer Campaign Finance Board for almost 18 years, building this reform agency into a nationally and internationally recognized model. At the Board she was responsible for the disbursement of tens of millions of dollars in public funding to candidates for New York City elective offices, enforcement of the New York City Campaign Finance Act, creation of sophisticated databases for public disclosure of campaign finances, distribution of New York City's multi-lingual Voter Guide to millions of households, crafting of legislative initiatives and agency regulations, and evaluation of the impact of the Campaign Finance Program. She served as the Vice President of the JEHT Foundation, which focused on criminal justice, international justice, elections, and juvenile justice.There she was in charge of all program areas and grants administration, working closely with government officials, academics, not-for-profit institutions, and other foundations to effect change in governmental policy and practice. Most recently she was Chair of New York State's Task Force on Public Safety Accountability, which has been created to integrate evidence-based policy and practice in New York's eight public safety (primarily criminal justice) agencies.
Before joining the Campaign Finance Board, Ms. Gordon served as Counsel to the Chairman of the New York State Commission on Government Integrity and as an Assistant Corporation Counsel in New York City's Law Department, handling a wide range of cases including cases involving environmental, education, civil rights, and employment law. She was also a litigator in private practice as an associate at the firm of Debevoise and Plimpton.
She is a past president of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws ("COGEL") and has served on numerous committees of the New York City and New York State Bar Associations.
Ms. Gordon's public service has been recognized with awards from COGEL (including "Special Recognition to the Campaign Finance Board for Extraordinary Service after September 11, 2001"), the Columbia University School of Law, New York State Common Cause, and the New York County Lawyers' Association. She was a Harvard University School of Law Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow.
She has taught at the Fordham University School of Law and Cardozo Law School and has written law review and political science articles on subjects relating to law, public policy, and public administration.
Ms. Gordon holds an A. B. degree from Barnard College with Honors in Classical Greek and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was the recipient of the Convers Prize for best original writing on a legal subject. She was a law clerk to the Hon. Harold R. Medina of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
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