Nicole Pittman

Nicole Pittman is the Executive Director of Just Beginnings Collaborative (JBC), a survivor-led funding intermediary committed to exploring what it means for communities to create and maintain their own systems to address and ultimately make child sexual abuse unthinkable.

As a survivor and an Abolitionist Feminist, Nicole believes true child sexual abuse prevention begins with unraveling one-size-fits-all responses while examining root causes and amplifying community strengths. With nearly thirty years of experience as a lawyer, social justice policy advocate, and activist—and through her work on abolishing youth sex offense registration laws by creating national initiatives like the Center on Youth Registration Reform (CYRR), writing a Human Rights Watch report, and transforming legislation— she has seen firsthand that our country’s existing “solutions” are merely after-the-fact responses to harm.

Earlier, Nicole worked as a juvenile justice policy analyst attorney at the Defender Association of Philadelphia. She was also an attorney at the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, the New Orleans Public Defender Office, and the New Orleans Pro Bono Project. She received a J.D. from Tulane Law School and a B.A. from Duke University.

“Beyond Ignite Advisory Board, I currently live in Oakland, CA, was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, and spent a significant part of my early adulthood in New Orleans, LA. I am an avid trail runner who loves dogs and spending time with her partner and labradoodle named Bella.”

Preferred gender pronouns: She/her/hers