Biography
Recognized by Fortune Magazine as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders, Dr. C. Nicole Mason is President/CEO of Future Forward Women, a legislative exchange and policy network committed to building women’s political, economic, and social power and influence in the U.S. and globally.
Nicole was named one of Glamour Magazine’s 100 Influential Women Leaders and Washingtonian Magazine’s 500 Most Influential Policy Leaders. She also won the highly competitive New Executive Award from the Open Society Foundations and was honored as a Thrive leader by the Kresge Foundation. Additionally, she is an inaugural Ascend Fellow at the Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C.
For the past two decades, Dr. Mason has spearheaded research on economic security, pay equity, poverty, women’s issues, entitlement reforms, policy formation and political participation among women and communities of color, and racial equity.