Nick Aquino

Nick Aquino is a staff attorney with the Microenterprise Project. He is passionate about supporting community-led development and economic justice through community lawyering. Prior to joining VOLS, Nick was the 2022-2023 National Center on Philanthropy and the Law Fellow for Lawyers Alliance for New York, where he provided pro bono legal services for nonprofits serving low-income New York City communities. Nick graduated from Harvard Law School in 2022, where he represented public housing tenants through the Harvard Tenant Advocacy Project and worked on transactional matters with Boston nonprofits, small businesses, and local musicians at the Transactional Law Clinics. While in law school, Nick also interned for legal advocacy organizations Root & Rebound and the Detroit Justice Center. Prior to law school, Nick worked as an organizer and researcher in the fight against Detroit’s tax foreclosure crisis. Nick graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2017 with a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and minors in Afroamerican & African Studies and Urban Studies.