Nomiki Konst
Last Name:
Konst
Nomiki Konst is the Founder and served as Executive Director of Alliance Hollywood, an organization which organizes socially conscious members of the entertainment industry and gives them the training and tools necessary to communicate nonpartisan issues on Capitol Hill and to the American people. The organization’s mission is to encourage civil discourse in America.
In 2008, Konst created a documentary drama TV pilot highlighting her mother, Kathy Konst’s, tumultuous campaign for New York State Senate. The campaign was described as “one of the dirtiest local campaigns in the country” and the pilot was applauded for capturing the profound pressure of running a positive campaign against a heavily funded, negative, 38-year incumbent.
Konst is an at-large member of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Council and served as a National Co-Chair for Generation Forty Four, the young professional fundraising arm of President Obama’s Re-Election Campaign. She is the West Coast Managing Director of Partnerships for the Truman National Security Project, sits on the Board of Directors for the Just Media Group and the Board of Advisors for Running Start (LA) and New Leaders Council (LA). And, Konst was named a Change.org Changemaker of the Year in 2010.
Konst wrote for The Yippie, an online publication that serves as a voice of the Millennial generation. She contributes to The Huffington Post, The Environmentalist and LA Progressive. Konst has worked on local, state and federal Democratic political campaigns in Arizona, California and New York State, as well as organizing youth in Western NY for Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Senatorial campaign and interning for U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (NY).
Konst regularly speaks on issues relating to national politics, millennial and women’s issues, political and media strategy and pop culture’s influence on politics.
She is an alumnus of Junior Statesmen Georgetown Program, Excellence in Youth Leadership Counsel and Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity and won national awards in college from AMTA (American Mock Trial Association) and Model United Nations. In 2000, Konst founded Students for Democracy, a high school organization, still active today, which helps engage and teach students about the democratic process.
Class:
2011
Region:
West
