Nikita Price is the Civil Rights organizer at Picture the Homeless, New York City's only homeless-led social justice organization. While navigating the NYC shelter system, Nikita joined Picture the Homeless in 2006, he (volunteered) as a member for over a year, and was later hired as a full time organizer. Since that time, he has led campaigns to establish housing status as a protected class in police work and to successfully push back against the removal of homeless people from public space, and has brought Picture the Homeless to the forefront of national struggles for homeless civil rights.