Nomiki (/No-me-KEY/) ^[1]Daphne Konst is a political analyst and communications strategist regularly appearing on national media outlets discussing politics. She's Founder & Executive Director of The Accountability Project (TAP), an investigative news start-up centered on political corruption. She is the host of The Accountability Podcast, the only podcast that solely focuses on political corruption and also contributes political commentary on cable news. She is also a contributor to The Hill.

Konst recently returned from Libya, where she worked with political party leaders, women and candidates on transitioning to a functional democratic state following their liberation from Col. Gadaffi. She trained in communications and campaigns for the National Democratic Institute.

At 28 years old, Konst vied to be the youngest woman to ever serve in Congress, running in her hometown, Tucson, AZ for the seat vacated by Rep. Giffords. She was acclaimed for challenging the status quo and bucking the party agenda. Previously, she founded and managed Alliance Hollywood, which gives members of the entertainment industry the training and tools to speak on political issues.

Konst is an advocate for women, campaign reform, millennials and civil discourse. From her start on Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign at 16 years old to national co-chairing Pres. Barack Obama's Re-Election campaign, she’s worked for three different presidential campaigns as well as dozens of campaigns across the country - in all areas of the campaign world, including field organizing, communications, fundraising and media. Konst has also worked in nonprofit and advocacy, from national publicity campaigns on hydraulic fracturing to organ donation reform.

Before running for office, Konst was an at-large member of the DNC Council and a National Co-Chair for Generation Forty Four, the young professional fundraising arm of President Obama’s 2012 Re-Election campaign.

She’s a Truman National Security Project Partner, sits on the Board of Advisors for Running Start and LaunchProgress and was a 2010 Change.org Changemaker of the Year. She also sat on the LA Board of the New Leaders Council and the Just Media Council.

Konst appears regularly on Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, as well as CNN, MSNBC, NY 1, HuffPost Live and CSPAN. She has contributed to and appeared in the NY Daily News, The Huffington Post, Politico, The AZ Republic, City & State, the NY Observer, The Gotham Gazette, The Wall Street Journal, PolicyMic and many other publications. In 2009, Konst produced “Campaign Country,” a reality show pilot highlighting her mother’s NYS Senate Campaign. In 2011, she hosted a television news show pilot called “Millennials at the Table.

Her name is derived from the ancient Greek word, "law" and she comes from a family of lawyers.

Her name is prominent on one island in Greece (Kalymnos) where her father's family is from. It is Greek tradition that the first born is named after the paternal grandmother or grandfather. In this case, she is named after her grandmother, Nomiki.