I’m Nicole, a freelance journalist living between Baltimore and the San Francisco Bay Area. I write about food, health, culture, and environmental justice.

My writing has appeared in ARTnews, Civil Eats, Gastronomica, Public Art Review, two Phaidon Press volumes, and the anthology Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation, among other publications.

In 2025, I was selected for the Food Systems and Public Health Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University as well as a reporting fellowship with the Pulitzer Center. In 2024, I was a mental health reporting fellow at Civil Eats.

As a journalist, I’m drawn to stories that ask tough questions about the health of our communities and offer possible solutions. I've written about southern Black farmers adopting eco-friendly rice growing practices, a dementia study that takes the form of an online cooking class, and community-based mental health support for LGBTQ+ farmers.

Before I started writing full-time, I spent over a decade working with cultural institutions, helping to broaden access to the arts. At the Brooklyn Museum, I led interpretation for over thirty exhibitions. Later, I became founding editor of the Art21 Magazine, a digital companion to the Emmy-nominated PBS series Art in the Twenty-First Century. In 2019, I received an Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation.

I hold a master’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley and another master’s in curatorial studies from Bard College. Passionate about education, I've taught art history at the School of Visual Arts, writing at the Rhode Island School of Design, and courses on capitalism and data science at UC Berkeley.

When I’m not writing, you can find me hanging out at a bookstore, binge-watching British murder mysteries, or enjoying nature with my wife and our entitled English Pointer.