Campaign strategy, grassroots organizing, ballot initiatives, and advocacy rooted in solidarity.
People deserve more than survival. They deserve dignity, opportunity, joy, safety, and a real voice in the decisions that shape their lives.
The Bread & Roses Project is a progressive organizing and campaign strategy initiative founded by Christine Nicols. It draws on work across electoral campaigns, grassroots protest, reproductive freedom, racial justice, immigrant rights, and coalition organizing in New York.
Our approach connects the practical work of campaigns with the long-term work of building power: listening to communities, developing leaders, creating clear messages, and turning shared demands into organized action.
Campaign planning, voter contact strategy, volunteer mobilization, field operations, messaging, outreach, and election-cycle coordination.
Community mobilization, direct-action planning, issue campaigns, public demonstrations, and sustainable local organizing.
Connecting residents, organizers, labor allies, advocacy organizations, and community partners around shared goals.
Clear public narratives, press outreach, event communications, digital organizing, and materials that help people act.
Organizing around reproductive freedom, racial and economic justice, immigrant rights, and an accountable democracy.
Volunteer onboarding, practical workflows, campaign systems, and community relationships that endure after election day.
Bread is what we need to survive: food, housing, healthcare, fair wages, and security. Roses are what we deserve beyond survival: dignity, joy, beauty, opportunity, and a meaningful voice in our future.
The phrase comes from the labor movement and is closely associated with the 1912 textile workers' strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Its message remains radical in its simplicity: people should not have to choose between making a living and having a life.
For the Bread & Roses Project, that means fighting for material change while building lasting community power. Not just a victory on Election Day, and never empty promises in place of results.
From voter outreach tables to community demonstrations and organizing with candidates, these moments are part of a longer story of showing up and building collective power.
The Bread & Roses philosophy
Too much of politics is designed to placate communities with reassuring words while leaving the structures that hurt them intact. We believe the measure of organizing is not whether people feel temporarily heard, but whether they gain a real say and see meaningful changes in their lives.
Fear says nothing ever changes.
Hope says watch us.
A home for campaign management, organizing, coalition-building, public advocacy, and political strategy across New York and beyond.
Board service and humanitarian work in support of community-led initiatives for Haitian children and families.
Visit the foundationChild behavioral specialist work, support for children and families, and an independent professional project.
Immigrant rights, survivor-centered advocacy, women's rights, political participation, and community accountability.
These are specific moments from years of organizing, not stock photos or a generic list of causes. Each story connects the work to its place, moment, and public context.
Photo from Christine Nicols's personal archiveOn the first anniversary of the January 6 attack, Christine addressed a public gathering in Glens Falls, calling attention to white supremacy, threats to democratic government, and the responsibility of elected officials. The action included demands for accountability from Representative Elise Stefanik, including calls for her resignation.
The gathering took place as residents and organizers publicly challenged efforts to undermine the 2020 election results. Christine's photograph captures the work directly: speaking from prepared remarks to a community gathered outside on a winter evening.
At a Glens Falls women's march, demonstrators rallied for reproductive freedom, the rights of survivors, and continued support for Planned Parenthood. Christine was quoted by North Country Public Radio urging people to volunteer, organize locally, and participate in elections. The reporting places her public speaking and community mobilization in the context of a wider national movement.
Read North Country Public Radio's coverage
A television news image from Christine's archive identifies her as an abortion justice advocate during a public demonstration. Her advocacy has included public appearances, demonstrations, survivor-centered messaging, and organizing around bodily autonomy. This image documents her public-facing role, without implying an employment relationship with Planned Parenthood.
Local organizers responded to George Floyd's killing with public demonstrations, community education and calls for systemic change. Christine was named in local coverage as one of several organizers who helped support the expanded effort and spoke about launching 518 AID, Against Inequality and Discrimination, alongside local community partners.
Read the Glens Falls Chronicle's 2020 reportingFrom public testimony and televised interviews to marches and street-level community organizing, advocacy means speaking up, making the issues visible, and insisting that people's rights are more than political talking points.
Christine's public advocacy includes organizing, public speaking, reproductive-rights campaigns and survivor-centered issues. Additional video clips and event photographs will be added as specific appearances are identified in the archive.
Organizing is not confined to elections. It means showing up for the people most affected by policy decisions, standing against injustice, and building the relationships required to create durable change.
Immigrant rights advocacy, know-your-rights education, work challenging detention and deportation, and support for people navigating asylum and immigration systems. Training notes include ICE encounters, access to counsel, and protecting constitutional rights.
Women's marches, reproductive-rights advocacy, and public mobilization for bodily autonomy. In 2020, North Country Public Radio documented Christine speaking at the Glens Falls Women's March and urging people to organize and vote.
Read the reportingDemonstrations, organizing and community education against systemic discrimination in the Glens Falls and Fort Edward area. Local coverage documents Christine's role in organizing and developing 518 AID.
Read the coverageParticipation in public protests, legal-observer education, voter protection efforts, and civic organizing for equal treatment and accountability.
Issue advocacy focused on dignity, affordability, and public investment, including Tax the Rich organizing and coalition work.
Public actions and coalition participation around environmental justice, democratic accountability, and sustainable local communities.
Advocacy for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, support for victim-centered responses, and a commitment to safety, dignity and access to resources. This is described as advocacy work without disclosing private survivor experiences.
Campaigns are built through relationships, preparation, logistics, communication, and the willingness to do the unglamorous work.
Christine's résumé notes describe serving as co-chair of SWWPA, helping coordinate more than 50 community events and actions; recruiting and supporting volunteers; interviewing candidates; arranging venues, speakers and performers; coordinating public communications and press; and working with local officials, donors and community groups.
The notes also describe advocacy and coalition-building across election cycles, including work with progressive organizations and local candidates.
Selected public references document parts of the work. More articles and campaign archives will be added as they are verified.
The Glens Falls Chronicle discusses Christine Nicols's role in organizing, community education, and the development of 518 AID.
View newspaper PDFA public campaign event listing names Christine Nicols as a co-host alongside Leslye for Westchester and Jamaal Bowman.
View event archiveNorth Country Public Radio reports on the march and quotes Christine urging people to rise up, volunteer and make their voices heard.
Read NCPR coverageCoverage of public protest urging Representative Elise Stefanik to act during the federal government shutdown.
Read Adirondack Daily Enterprise coverageCampaign manager. Organizer. Advocate.
An organizer who believes that political work should be accountable to the people it claims to serve.
Christine's experience spans electoral operations, coalition partnerships, community protests, and rights-based advocacy. Her work combines on-the-ground organizing with communication, strategy, and the practical systems that help volunteers and communities turn conviction into collective action.
Working across New York and beyond.
Bread & Roses Project is part of a wider practice of organizing, community advocacy and work alongside grassroots movements. Explore the related work or get in touch about campaigns and partnerships.
A separate Haitian nonprofit supporting education, nutrition, community-led projects and opportunity for children and families in Haiti. Christine serves on the foundation's Board of Directors.
Visit Voice of the ChildrenFollow the work, from campaign trails and community actions to daily organizing and advocacy.
Profile names confirmed. Direct account URLs will be added when the exact handles are verified.
Christine’s child behavioral specialist work, focused on helping children and families through individualized support, care, and connection. A distinct professional project from the nonprofit and campaign work.
Dedicated webpage link to be added once verified
Campaign information and organizing resources from the 2026 Westchester County Legislature election.
Visit campaign resourcesPartnerships, field strategy, public action, community outreach and campaign work.
breadrosesproject@gmail.comFor campaign collaborations, community organizing, strategic partnerships, and press inquiries, reach out to Bread & Roses Project.