Nicholas educates and mobilizes conservatives throughout the western United States to support campaigns against the death penalty. In 2022, he returned to Nevada, where he grew up, after living and working in the Washington, D.C., area for over a decade. Nicholas’s previous experience includes working in communications and development at the National Right to Work Foundation and volunteering on various causes and campaigns. He served on the Board of Directors of Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, which successfully worked with partners across the ideological spectrum to end capital punishment in 2021. Nicholas received his bachelor's degree in political science and American studies from Providence College.