Project Portfolio
Below highlights Nicole’s past and current projects. Each project or speaking engagement provides a brief summary of Nicole’s involvement.
Case studies are available upon request.
Speaking
Panelist, “Maternal Health Equity: Supporting Community and Structural Interventions”
Speaking
Facilitating multiple workshops, including Promoting Choice, Individual Power and Safety: Practical Tips for Interviewing Survivors of Sexual Exploitation, Sex Workers, and Individuals with Experience Selling or Trading Sex” (with Katie Fritz Fogel of Rainbow Research)
Evaluation
Leading impact and learning activities for AIUSA’s Heroes Against Gun Violence Campaign
Evaluation
Leading evaluation capacity activities to support the development of Amplify GA’s programmatic Monitoring & Evaluation framework
Speaking
Speaker presentation, “Lessons Learned: Lowering the Barriers to Research Participant Recruitment & Enrollment”
Speaking
Facilitating multiple workshops, including An Introduction to Evaluating Community-Based Black Maternal Health Programs (with Nia Mitchell, MPH, CPH and Ayanna Robinson, MPH, Ph.D.) and Parenting is Parenting: Addressing the Myths, Stigmas, and Criminalization of Young Black Parenting (with Jessica Roach of Restoring Our Own Through Transformation (ROOTT))
Facilitation
Facilitating community partnership meeting on senior food security
Speaking
Facilitating roundtable discussions, including Infusing Evaluation with Community Organizing to Improve Maternal Health Outcomes in Underserved Communities
Evaluation
Supporting qualitative data collection and analysis activities for New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Healthy Women, Healthy Futures community-based doula initiative
Speaking
Facilitating multiple workshops, including The Revolution Starts with Me! Recipes, Remedies, Rituals and Resources for Self Care with Adaku Utah and Redefining Allyship: Communities of Color Building Trust, Recognizing Privilege, and Uniting in Solidarity
Facilitation
Conducting baseline and follow-up participant data collection and analysis processes, and facilitating monthly meetings and a 2-day convening for partners participating in Redefining Quality: A New Vision for Success in Person-Centered Contraceptive Access Projects
Speaking
Facilitating workshop during Women’s Health Update Conference, “Incorporating the Reproductive Justice in Clinical Settings”
Program Design, Facilitation
Supporting implementation and messaging for EverThrive’s contraceptive justice public awareness campaign, a broad public awareness campaign focused on the knowing your rights when accessing abortion, birth control, emergency contraption, regardless whether one has health insurance coverage.
Facilitating Reproductive Justice 101 sessions with EverThrive board and staff; facilitating program design activities to support operationalization of RJ framework in organizational culture, programming, and and strategy
Speaking
Facilitating webinar, “Reproductive Justice & Culturally Responsive & Equitable Evaluation (CREE) in Action”
Strategic Planning, Facilitation
Leading strategic planning activities in the development of FAN’s strategic plan
Evaluation
Leading evaluation activities for HC One’s Birth Equity Leadership Academy, including staff-specific evaluative thinking processes, and the facilitation of the BELA evaluation committee
Research, Facilitation
In partnership with Mathematica
Co-leading and facilitating research and culture change activities related to Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Transforming Health and Healthcare Systems and RWJF’s birth equity portfolio
Strategic Planning, Facilitation
Leading strategic planning activities in the development of MSFC’s strategic plan
Speaking
Facilitating organizational collective care training
Evaluation, Facilitation
Leading evaluation capacity activities to support staff development in evaluation, including program-specific evaluation logic model development, staff program coaching on evaluative thinking, and the facilitation of NNAF’s Evaluation Working Group
Speaking
Facilitating workshops, including Reproductive Justice as a Social Work Value- Dilemmas in Abortion, Adoption, and Parenting (with Social Workers for Reproductive Justice)
Speaking
Plenary speaker, “Incorporating the Reproductive Justice Framework into Messaging and Advocacy“
Speaking
Facilitating workshops, including Placing Reproductive Justice and the Forefront of Comprehensive Sex Education
Strategic Planning, Facilitation
Facilitating 2-day strategic planning meeting to support the development of NYAAF’s strategic plan
Evaluation, Facilitation
Multiple projects, including Bureau of Maternal, Infant and Reproductive Health (leading evaluation activities for the Sexual and Reproductive Justice 5-year campaign, and co-facilitating RJ 101 and community participatory practice training for the SRJ Community Engagement Group); and Center for Health Equity (supporting the development of evaluation planning and materials to support the NYC DOHMH’s Race to Justice initiative)
Program/Curriculum Design
In partnership with Social Workers for Reproductive Justice
Co-designing curriculum on the Reproductive Justice framework and its application in nursing practice
In partnership with Cultural Equity Lab
Co-leading evaluation capacity activities to support staff development in evaluation, including program-specific evaluation design, staff program coaching on evaluative thinking, and the facilitation of NSRH’s evaluation working group
Strategic Planning
Leading asset / needs mapping and strategic planning activities in the development of PHEI’s strategic plan
Facilitation, Program/Curriculum Design
Multiple projects including meeting facilitation for PPFA and Reproductive Justice leaders, workshop facilitation for PPFA’s Abortion School, and supporting documentation and activity curriculum analysis related to PPFA’s Future of Abortion Access initiative
Speaking, Program/Curriculum Design
Supporting curriculum and material analysis and recommendations to reflect current industry best practices for equity and inclusion
Speaking, Program & Curriculum Design
Conducting analysis and development of collaborative materials for Quality Improvement Network for Contraceptive Access (QINCA) 2.0 for patient-centeredness and alignment with Reproductive Justice framework; meeting facilitation for QINCA partners on the Reproductive Justice framework
Facilitation
Facilitating in-depth organizational goal review and goal setting; supporting leadership and management, staff recruitment, and building a stronger, healthier organization
Research, Facilitation
Conducting qualitative research and Theory of Change activities to support RWJF’s birth equity and justice portfolio
Evaluation
Leading evaluation activities for Sadie Nash’s 6-week Summer Institute
Speaking
Facilitating multiple workshops during the Let’s Talk About Sex Conference, including From Clearing Ambiguity to Addressing Power Dynamics: Getting Your Staff on Board with Reproductive Justice and Keep It 100: Sparking the Conversation about Sexuality Between Youth and Adults
Evaluation
In partnership with D.E.E.P. Consulting
Co-leading evaluation and learning activities for SStF’s programming
Strategic Planning
Leading strategic planning activities, including providing recommendations for organizational succession and sustainability planning
Speaking
Facilitating workshops, including Keep It 100: Sparking the Conversation about Sex between Youth of Color and Adults and “Good Girls Don’t Have Sex”: Young Women of Color, Spirituality, Sex, & Body Image