Nina
Verghese

Nina Verghese specializes in grassroots advocacy and campaign management and is the practice lead of the firm’s Campaign & Advocacy team. ​Nina currently serves as a Senior Director and Practice Lead at APCO and is based in Washington.

Prior to joining APCO, Nina worked at Locust Street Group, a strategic communications firm based in Washington, D.C, where she designed and managed numerous federal, state, and local multi-million-dollar strategic advocacy, public affairs, and communications campaigns. Nina has also worked at Burson Cohn & Wolfe and held a variety of political and campaign-related positions, including serving as the national coalition’s director for the Jon Huntsman for President Campaign and as deputy regional political director at the Republican National Committee. In addition, she worked at the White House under President George W. Bush and at the nationally recognized polling firm The Tarrance Group.​

Nina also serves on the Board of Directors of Freedom for All Americans, a bipartisan campaign to secure full nondiscrimination​ protections for LGBTQ people nationwide.