Nichoe Lichen

An adoption social worker by profession, Nichoe has spent much of her life in environmental, civil rights and economic justice work. In 2012 Nichoe introduced public banking to New Mexico to regain dignity, hope, and economic democracy at the local level. She helped found Banking on New Mexico, which hosted an international public banking symposium in Santa Fe in September 2014. Nichoe served on the Executive committee of that BonNM, and coordinated the “Brass Tacks Team” which did technical research to ground public banking in facts and data. The efforts of Nichoe and others led the City of Santa Fe to commission a public bank feasibility study in 2015. She joined the Board of the Public Banking Institute in 2015.