An avid ACLU supporter since 2001, Nicola Fuentes Toubia believes that civil liberties are the cornerstone of our democracy: they allow individual ingenuity to flourish. Over her 27 years of experience as a lawyer representing nonprofit organizations, Nicola has helped numerous nonprofits with their advocacy and lobbying work, and she believes this experience complements her work on the board of the ACLU of Texas. Since 2007, she has been involved with the University of Texas School of Law’s Nonprofit Organizations Institute as a speaker, member of its planning committee, and for three years as a conference chair or co-chair. Nicola also serves as an instructor at Rice University Leadership Institute for Nonprofit Executives. She is a member of Hermann Park Conservancy’s Board, Houston Philosophical Society, and Texas A&M University’s College of Liberal Arts Development Council.
Previously, Nicola served on the Board of Commissioners for the Houston Housing Authority. Prior to opening her own law firm in 2008, Nicola practiced with big law firms in Houston and Washington, D.C. Prior to law school, she worked for Accenture in New York and Dimensions Health Care in Washington, D.C. Nicola is a graduate of Texas A&M University (B.S.), UT School of Law (J.D.), and University of Houston Law Center (LL.M. in taxation).