Nicole Romain is Head of the Communications and Awareness Raising Unit at the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), where she has spent more than 15 years shaping how fundamental rights are communicated across the EU. As FRA’s Spokesperson, she translates complex socio-legal analysis and survey findings from across the full spectrum of FRA's work into accessible public communication, with recent attention to online and offline hate and identity-based disinformation, including gender-based disinformation. Before joining FRA, she worked as an author and editorial consultant with Bertelsmann Publishing in Germany and Spain, and with Eurofound in Dublin.