Nick Surgey

Nick Surgey is the Director of Research at the Center for Media and Democracy, joining the team in March 2013. Before that, Nick was Staff Counsel at Common Cause, where he led the research and legal work on their ALEC and Supreme Court Ethics projects. Nick’s research has been featured widely, including in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Mother Jones magazine, The Nation magazine, on MSNBC, and many other places including the Colbert Report on Comedy Central. His passion for working towards social justice has found him previously working with the UK non-profit Refugee Council, at an immigration and asylum law firm, as a union officer, and as an activist/campaigner.

Twitter: @nicksurgey