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Queensborough Community College—degree in new media; The City College of New York's Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership—degree in psychology
Data last updated 10/27/2026
Nickie Kane is a lifelong New Yorker and community advocate/grassroots organizer running in New York's 10th Congressional District. She says she worked after high school in retail at GAP, then in banking at Amalgamated Bank, North Fork Bank, and Capital One; later she worked in advertising at Publicis Groupe and in human resources at Disney ABC Television Group. NYC Votes lists her as a paralegal student and community advocate who has worked in banking, advertising, and human resources, with a focus on affordable housing and other community issues.
Committee Assignments: NICKIE KANE FOR CONGRESS
Nickie Kane frames healthcare as a human right and supports universal coverage through Medicare for All. Her platform also backs funding mental health care, community clinics, reproductive health care, gender-affirming care, and lowering prescription drug costs, while a voter-guide profile says she supports Medicaid and opposes cuts.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Kane supports Medicare for All, calling for universal, comprehensive health coverage regardless of job, income, or immigration status.
SourceKane supports full funding for mental health care and community clinics as part of her healthcare-as-a-right platform.
SourceKane supports reproductive healthcare access for everyone.
SourceKane supports gender-affirming care without barriers or discrimination.
SourceBranch's candidate profile states that Kane supports Medicaid and opposes funding cuts, emphasizing its importance for low-income individuals.
SourceNickie Kane frames her economic agenda as pro-worker and affordability-focused, supporting higher taxes on billionaires and corporations, stronger union and gig-worker protections, and measures to lower costs for essentials such as groceries, transit, childcare, prescription drugs, and Social Security benefits. She also connects climate policy to job creation by backing a Green New Deal that creates union clean-energy jobs.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Kane supports closing loopholes used by billionaires, raising effective tax rates on extreme wealth and capital gains, and using the revenue for childcare, healthcare, housing, and transit.
SourceKane says she would fight corporate price-gouging, protect and expand public transit funding, expand affordable childcare and early education, and lower prescription drug costs through negotiation and regulation.
SourceKane supports strong unions and collective bargaining rights, fair wages, overtime protections for gig and freelance workers, fair taxes on corporations and the ultra-wealthy, and support for small businesses and worker-owned cooperatives.
SourceKane supports eliminating federal taxes on Social Security benefits, protecting and expanding benefits, and opposing attempts to cut or privatize Social Security.
SourceKane supports a Green New Deal that creates union jobs in clean energy, upgrades public housing with sustainable infrastructure, protects frontline communities, and invests in flood resilience.
SourceNickie Kane supports a more humane immigration and asylum system that pairs border security and screening with due process, faster hearings, and reduced immigration court backlogs. Her stated approach emphasizes timely decisions so asylum seekers and immigrant families are not left in legal limbo for years.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Kane says the immigration system should be secure, fair, and efficient while respecting due process for asylum seekers.
SourceKane supports reducing immigration court backlogs by hiring more judges and staff so cases move more quickly.
SourceIn her NYC Votes profile, Kane said there should be limits on how many asylum and immigration cases can wait to be heard, so people get answers faster.
SourceKane supports properly screening asylum seekers while providing a fair, orderly process that protects border security and human dignity.
SourceNickie Kane supports an aggressive climate agenda centered on a Green New Deal, clean-energy investment, union jobs, public-housing upgrades, and protections for frontline communities in NY-10. Her platform frames climate change as a local threat through heat, flooding, pollution, and aging infrastructure.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Kane supports a Green New Deal that would create union jobs and invest in clean energy.
SourceKane says she supports investments in clean energy as part of her climate plan for NY-10.
SourceKane supports upgrading public housing with sustainable infrastructure to address climate impacts and aging infrastructure.
SourceKane supports protecting frontline communities from pollution and extreme heat.
SourceKane supports investment in resilient flood infrastructure for Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan.
SourceNickie Kane's available public education positions emphasize preserving federal education capacity and increasing public investment in schools, childcare, centers, and teachers. No Congress.gov sponsored or cosponsored bills apply because Kane is not a sitting member of Congress.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Kane opposes federal efforts to defund the Department of Education, according to Branch's candidate issue profile.
SourceKane supports increased public school funding, according to Branch's candidate issue profile.
SourceKane supports fighting for universal childcare and funding for childcare centers and teachers, according to Brooklyn Paper's 2025 voter guide.
SourceNickie Kane frames public safety as rooted in care, stability, and prevention rather than punitive enforcement. Her platform supports community-based violence prevention, mental health crisis response, and safer streets and subways while opposing approaches that criminalize poverty or mental illness.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Kane supports community-based violence prevention programs as part of a care-centered public safety agenda.
SourceKane supports mental health crisis response teams to address emergencies without defaulting to criminalization.
SourceKane supports safer streets and subways while opposing public-safety approaches that criminalize poverty or mental illness.
SourceKane says real public safety comes from stability and care, emphasizing social supports as the foundation of safety.
SourceNickie Kane for Congress
https://www.nickiekane.com/about.php?lang=enFetched: biography, education, professional background
NYC Votes
https://www.nycvotes.org/whats-on-the-ballot/2025-general-election/city-council/profile/?bannerTitle=Nickie+Kane&boroughCode=&candidateId=2740&districtID=&electionCycle=2025&geoAreaAbbr=&officeType=&officelevel=&partyId=Fetched: biography, professional background
NYC Board of Elections
https://www.vote.nyc/sites/default/files/pdf/candidates/2025/9_11_2025_3_39_53_PM_General_ContestList_Web_Version.pdfFetched: location
FEC API
https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/candidate/H6NY10184/totals/Fetched: totalRaised, totalSpent, cashOnHand
Ballotpedia News
https://news.ballotpedia.org/2026/04/07/incumbent-daniel-goldman-d-nickie-kane-d-and-brad-lander-d-are-running-in-the-democratic-primary-for-new-yorks-10th-congressional-district-on-june-23-2026/Fetched: endorsements
Nickie Kane for Congress platform
https://www.nickiekane.com/platform.php?lang=enFetched: issuePositions
Branch candidate profile
https://www.branch.vote/races/2025-nyc-primary-election-ny-state-city-council-member-ny-new-york-city-city-council-39-d/candidates/nickie-kaneFetched: issuePositions
NYC Votes candidate profile
https://www.nycvotes.org/whats-on-the-ballot/2025-general-election/city-council/profile/?bannerTitle=Nickie+Kane&boroughCode=&candidateId=2740&districtID=&electionCycle=2025&geoAreaAbbr=&officeType=&officelevel=&partyId=Fetched: issuePositions
NYC Votes candidate profile
https://www.nycvotes.org/whats-on-the-ballot/2025-general-election/city-council/profile/?bannerTitle=Nickie+Kane&boroughCode=&candidateId=2740&districtID=39&electionCycle=2025&geoAreaAbbr=&officeType=5&officelevel=1&partyId=OTHFetched: issuePositions
Nickie Kane for Congress campaign website
https://www.nickiekane.com/platform?lang=enFetched: issuePositions
Branch
https://www.branch.vote/races/2025-nyc-primary-election-ny-state-city-council-member-ny-new-york-city-city-council-39-d/candidates/nickie-kaneFetched: issuePositions
Branch
https://www.branch.vote/races/2025-nyc-general-election-ny-state-city-council-member-ny-new-york-city-city-council-39/candidates/nickie-kaneFetched: issuePositions
Brooklyn Paper
https://www.brooklynpaper.com/brooklyn-2025-general-election-voter-guide/Fetched: issuePositions