Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College, the NMU School of Art and Design and the NMU Center for Native American Studies participate in the Great Lakes Indigenous Art, Education, and Healing project.
Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.