Nsé Ufot

Nsé serves as Groundswell Action Fund’s Interim Board Chair

Nsé Ufot, founder of New South Super PAC and former CEO of New Georgia Project, advocates for civil, human, and workers’ rights. A change-maker and thought leader with a data-informed approach, she organizes leaders, campaigns, and resources to serve working families and their priorities.

Nsé led campaigns that helped over 700,000 Georgians register to vote and moved millions of people to take action and affect change. She pioneered an approach that merged civil rights advocacy with technology to combat voter suppression and developed educational video games to increase voter engagement.  

Nsé has appeared in local and national news outlets to discuss her work, including All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC, Salon, and The Root. Additionally, she has served as a panelist on the national stage at SXSW and Netroots Nation, and her work was featured in BET’s Finding Justice docu-series. Nse is featured in the PBS documentary, And She Could Be Next, executive produced by Emmy Award winner Ava Duvernay.

Before joining the New Georgia Project, Nsé was the assistant executive director for the Canadian Association of University Teachers, Canada’s largest faculty union. She also served as the senior lobbyist and government relations officer for the American Association of University Professors, where she coordinated initiatives to mobilize members around legislation and regulations that impacted higher education and labor law.

Nsé, a proud naturalized citizen, was born in Nigeria and raised in Southwest Atlanta. She earned a Bachelor of Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Juris Doctor from the University of Dayton School of Law. Nsé is an avid cyclist who enjoys international travel and listening to and playing music from the African Diaspora.