Nicole lives in Rye, NY with her husband, Jon, and two young daughters. She began her career in the nonprofit sector 15 years ago in Hartford, working as a policy analyst for state government and as a grant writer for a large child welfare/human service agency. After moving to Manhattan, Nicole began working with a national nonprofit accrediting body, the Council on Accreditation (COA), first as an analyst and eventually as the director of the organization's research arm. Exploring "what works" in human service delivery systems throughout the US took her to the taro plantations of rural Oahu, New Orleans' 9th Ward, and to the historic Bronzeville section of Chicago's South Side. Through collaborating with over 1200 public and private social service agencies, she gained a bird's eye look into the helping the most vulnerable among us with increasingly thin economic and political resources.

After taking a few years off to devote her energies to being a full-time mother and active community volunteer, Nicole resumed work in 2008 as a management consultant with local nonprofit groups. She was thrilled to begin working as the Executive Director of the Red Ribbon Foundation in January 2009.

Nicole is a member of the boards of Family Services of Westchester and Family-to-Family, and is a member of the Junior League of Westchester on the Sound and the Community Synagogue of Rye. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and holds her JD and MSW from the University of Connecticut.