Creating at the intersection of culture, care & justice.

Nicole is an arts writer, freelance journalist, and coach passionate about community health and healing.

Her current research and writing interests include mental health, burnout, women’s wellness, food, and the climate crisis.

Nicole’s writing has appeared in ARTnews, C Magazine, Gastronomica, Hyperallergic, Oakland North, Public Art Review, and two Phaidon Press volumes. In 2019, she was awarded an Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

She lives in the California Bay Area with her wife, Lisa, and their dog, Spectacular Speckles.

RECENT PROJECTS

Cementerio del Barrio de los Lipanes

Interpretation consultant and editor for this sacred Lipan Apache burial site in Presidio, Texas.

Black Birth Matters

Chapter in Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing.
Edited by Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago.

We’ve Always Had Our Ways

Catalog essay for Jody Wood’s solo exhibition at the Skövde Art Museum in Sweden.
Edited by Mette Muhli.

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Food Hazards

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On Reparations in the Arts

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Rest as Reparations