Nicholas J. Diamond studies to practice civil rights, labor, and employment law at The City University of New York School of Law, bringing a decade of international experience in public health. The President of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) recently appointed Nick to serve on the NYSBA Communications & Publications Committee. He is the communications chair of the NYSBA LGBTQ+ Law Section, and he sits on the New York City Bar Association Labor & Employment Law Committee. Nick is a legal intern at Goddard Law PLLC, whose labor and employment litigation practice seeks equality in the workplace.

As co-investigator of RESPND-MI, he partnered with an agency on a health education and communications campaign that won a national award for responding to an mpox outbreak in New York City’s queer and trans communities. Nick co-developed briefs advising city, state, and federal governments on health policy and communications, and he testified as an expert witness at the U.S. Department of Justice. As managing editor of Public Health Post, he expanded readership, earning a reference from Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign. Nick lectured as a guest speaker and taught as an adjunct instructor of public health at colleges and universities across the country.

His work appears in The New York Times, The Associated Press, New York Magazine, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, The Hill, U.S. News & World Report, CBS News, NBC News, and National Public Radio, as well as in three books: Pained: Uncomfortable Conversations about the Public's Health (Oxford University Press), The Picture of Health (APHA Press), and The Turning Point: Reflections on a Pandemic (Oxford University Press). Nick has published in Harvard Public Health Magazine, Harvard Medicine News, POZ, The Body, PLOS Global Public Health, Governing Magazine, and Innovators Magazine.

He sparked his public health career in Dakar, Senegal, where he conducted interviews as a graduate student for a series of articles on LGBTQ+ health. Nick sparked his legal career after years of community organizing, building a tenant association and filing pro se in New York City Housing Court against their landlord as an action for required repairs. He holds a Master of Public Health and a Graduate Certificate in African Studies from Boston University. Nick is proficient in French and conversant in Wolof.

He lives in Harlem with his husband, Keletso Makofane, and their dog, Brooklyn.