WaterPro Conference 2026

Nicole Tisdale
Founder & Principal
Advocacy Blueprints


Nicole Tisdale is founder and principal of Advocacy Blueprints LLC, which helps to make government more accessible to everyone through advocacy education, training, and strategy development. She boasts an expansive fifteen-plus year tenure as a national security attorney and Director at The White House - National Security Council, the U.S. Congress' House Committee on Homeland Security, and numerous positions in civil society and academia. Her policy expertise encompasses crucial areas such as cybersecurity, counterintelligence, emerging threats, foreign malign influence campaigns, and artificial intelligence. As the lead for the White House’s cybersecurity advocacy efforts before Congress, she led the creation of the $1 billion cybersecurity grant program and passage of the cyber incident reporting law, the most significant cybersecurity laws created in a decade. In Congress, Nicole created and managed more than 96 congressional hearings and passage of 354 bills through the House of Representatives, 80 of which became law. Nicole is an influential voice and facilitator in global policy negotiations and dialogues. She has represented the U.S. in 38 international delegations across 25 countries over her career, and speaking at more than sixty conferences and workshops in two years. She also leads cyber policy initiatives—advocating for cyber equity protections for marginalized communities facing digital threats, and the Cyber Policy Leadership Institute, launching underrepresented groups into cyber policy careers. Nicole believes passionately in civic engagement and the right to advocate, which is highlighted in her book “Right to Petition,” and her early advocacy for the Mississippi Innocence Project and Domestic Violence Legal Clinic.

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