Nikhil Goyal is a sociologist and policymaker who served as senior policy advisor on education and children for Chairman Senator Bernie Sanders on the
U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and Committee on the Budget. He developed education, child care, and child tax credit federal legislation as well as a tuition-free college program for incarcerated people and correctional workers in Vermont. He has appeared on CNN, Fox, and MSNBC, and written for the
New York Times,
Washington Post,
Wall Street Journal,
Time,
The Nation, and other publications. Goyal earned his
B.A. at Goddard College and
M.Phil and
Ph.D at the University of Cambridge. He lives in Vermont.
