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Nicholas Pelzer, Program Manager

Nicholas is the Program Manager for LINC's Health Insurance for Artists and Creative Communities programs. Throughout his career, he has been committed to promoting the inclusion and full participation of underrepresented communities through education, health care, social entrepreneurship and strategic grant making.

Prior to his work at LINC, Nicholas was Program Coordinator for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's New Jersey Nursing Initiative, a $22M program designed to transform nursing education and address the national nurse shortage. As a member of their Building Human Capital team, he developed and launched the portfolio’s first Collaborative Learning Community; a 24-month series of web‐based, continuing education modules designed to encourage innovative practices among grantees. In addition, as a National Urban Fellow and program consultant at RWJF, he worked on several initiatives, focusing on workforce development, childhood obesity and diversity, and inclusion. Prior to his time at RWJF, Mr. Pelzer served as Internship Program Manager for the T. Howard Foundation, a national non-profit organization dedicated to increasing diversity in multimedia and telecommunications.

Nicholas is a 2010 Leadership New Jersey Fellow, a 2009 America's Leader’s of Change Fellow, and an alumnus of the AmeriCorps VISTA program where he supported youth ages 12‐20 as they launched their own social ventures. He holds an M.P.A. from Baruch College - The City University of New York, and a B.S. from James Madison University.