Nicole is a Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) woman with maternal roots hail from Six Nations of the Grand River in southern Ontario and paternal roots hail from across the pond. She has spent 10 years working in Nistawâyâw (Fort McMurray) as a Librarian at the Wood Buffalo Regional Library advocating for accessible, barrier-free, and culturally safe programs and services for communities and individuals and then as an Outreach Manager with Waypoints working on violence against women. She has forged strong relationships in the Wood Buffalo region. She worked as the Coordinator of Member Supports and Special Projects with the Alberta Council of Women Shelters (ACWS), and now works at the CARE Lab leading project management, relationship-building and partnership development, and knowledge mobilization for the Indigenous Healthy Life Trajectory Initiative (I-HeLTI) – Wood Buffalo Cohort Study and Community Wellness Worker Program with McMurray Métis Local.