Nicole Melaku

Nicole Melaku is the executive director of the National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA). Nicole  brings over a decade of experience working on immigrant and refugee issues at the local, state, and national levels. As NPNA’s executive director, she works to harness the collective power of NPNA’s 60 member organizations across 40 states to advance immigrant inclusion efforts through advocacy, organizing campaigns, and policy initiatives. Prior to joining NPNA, she led the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition where she expanded the coalition to over 90 members and who worked together to pass some of the nation’s most affirmative immigrant and refugee policies in the nation including the passage of Colorado’s first legal defense fund in the City of Denver.