BIO

Nicole is an arts writer, health journalist, and burnout coach passionate about community health. Earlier in her career, she was a curator of contemporary art.

Nicole’s writing has appeared in ARTnews, C Magazine, Gastronomica, Hyperallergic, Nka, Public Art Review, Walker Art Center Magazine, and Vitamin Green and Vitamin D2, both Phaidon Press volumes. She was founding editor of the Art21 Magazine, a digital publication accompanying the award-winning PBS series Art in the Twenty-First Century. In 2019, she was awarded an Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to support a collaborative writing venture, The Ostracon.

As a curator, Nicole has organized exhibitions, creative placemaking projects, and public programs for audiences across the U.S. Her citywide exhibition in Nashville, Build Better Tables, was a finalist for the Robert E. Gard Award from Americans for the Arts. Other curatorial projects include The Grace Jones Project, an homage to the Jamaican-born singer, model and actress at the Museum of the African Diaspora; Derrick Adams: Crossroad—A Social Sculpture, a radio station and life-size board game at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts; and the Wanda D. Ewing Commission, an annual commission to support the production of new work by Black women artists.

Nicole holds a B.A. from San Francisco State University and an M.A. from Bard College. She is currently pursuing a second master’s degree in journalism with an emphasis in health reporting at the University of California, Berkeley.