With ancestry from the Southern United States and the Caribbean, and based in the Bronx, NY, Nicole strives to center the borough and the Black experience in the birth and social justice activism in which she engages.  She is the founder of Sésé, Birthing Freedom, and co-founder of Bx (Re)Birth and Progress Collective.
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Nicole received formal training to become a Full Spectrum Doula through Ancient Song Doula Services in April of 2014 and once again through the Matrona Holistic Birth Doula Program. 
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Nicole has served families whose cultural and linguistic backgrounds vary, supporting clients in hospital settings, birthing centers and at home.
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Nicole received a Masters degree in Oral History from Columbia University where she designed an oral history project on the evolution of birthing practices among women of African descent and how this may be linked to the history of midwifery in the American South.