Speaker

Amy M. Nice joined the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in June 2021 as an Assistant Director.  She has more than 30 years of experience as an immigration lawyer, both as a practitioner and policy analyst and advocate.  In her role as OSTP’s Assistant Director for International Science and Technology Workforce, she takes the lead on STEM immigration and primarily focuses on agency policy shifts that will help the U.S. attract and retain more international STEM talent.

Since 2010, Ms. Nice’s work has included working with coalitions of higher education and business on high-skilled immigration policy, service as an attorney in the DHS Office of the General Counsel at the end of the Obama administration, working on employment-based immigration regulations and policy, and before that nearly five years as the Executive Director for Immigration Policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where she worked extensively on S. 744, the bipartisan comprehensive immigration bill that passed the Senate in June 2013, and various other legislative efforts to reform the nation’s immigration statute.

Before devoting her work to immigration policy, Ms. Nice was Of Counsel at the Washington, DC law firm of Dickstein Shapiro (now Blank Rome) from 1989 to 2010, where she led the firm’s varied immigration practice.  While she was primarily engaged on employment-based immigration matters, she also worked closely on pro bono projects with Catholic Charities on developing a U-visa case-intake system and with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center on naturalization.