Nicole lives in Rye, NY with her husband, Jon, and their two young daughters.  She began her career in the nonprofit sector in Hartford 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 standard-setting body, the Council on Accreditation, first as an analyst and eventually as the director of the organization’s research arm.  Exploring “what works” in American human service delivery systems 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 work with over 1200 public and private social service agencies, Nicole gained a bird’s eye look into the helping the country’s most vulnerable 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 Board Vice President at both Family Services of Westchester, a large human services agency, and Family-to-Family, a grassroots hunger-relief organization.  She is a member of the Community Synagogue of Rye, the New York State Bar Association, and the American Bar Association’s Family Law Section.  Nicole is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and holds her JD and MSW from the University of Connecticut.