About
Stu Nicholson
Stu Nicholson
Stu joined the Rail Passengers Association Board of Directors in 2024. He also serves as Communications Director for the Lakeshore Rail Alliance and is the former Executive Director of All Aboard Ohio.
A self-described “recovering journalist”, Stu previously spent a 22-year career in television news as an award-winning reporter.
Stu also has 15 years of experience in public relations and media relations as:
- Public Information Director (PIO) and Communications Director for the Central Ohio Transit Authority
- Public Info Officer for the Ohio Rail Development Commission
- Represented Ohio Governors Taft and Strickland on the Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Commission
Favorite Original Quote: “Mobility is the essence of our freedom. To the extent we are made less mobile, we are less free. This best captures why I advocate for more and better passenger rail.”
"The support from the Rail Passengers Association, and from all of you individually, has been incredibly important to Amtrak throughout our history and especially so during the last trying year."
Bill Flynn, Amtrak CEO
April 19, 2021, speaking to attendees at the Rail Passengers Virtual Spring Advocacy Conference