Niko Emack

Niko runs Emack Ideas & Strategy, a small political consulting and ideation firm. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, NPR, Foreign Policy Magazine, The National Interest, NBC Boston, CBS, Fox 25, and more. On this topic, he has been a guest speaker or panelist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Harvard Institute of Politics, Harvard Law School, Boston University, Tufts University, Emerson College, and more. As a civic leader, he was recognized with a leadership award from the Cambridge NAACP, honored alongside Massachusetts leaders with the Black Excellence Award on the Hill, and presented with the inaugural Carter G. Woodson Award for Leadership, Innovation, and Education by the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He holds a degree in Political Communication: Leadership, Politics, and Social Advocacy from Emerson College and received his Ed.M. from Harvard University, where he studied leadership and organizations through the lens of education. He is currently a member of the faculty at Emerson College, where he teaches in the Department of Communication Studies. He has also had the honor of teaching at the Gwen Ifill College of Media, Arts, and Humanities at Simmons University and the Frederick E. Berry Institute of Politics at Salem State University.