Nicole completed her undergraduate education at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.  During her time there, she helped organize Young America’s Foundation lectures featuring Lt. Col. Oliver North, Ralph Reed, and Ben Stein.  She has dedicated her life to advancing conservative ideas ever since she heard Lt. Col. Oliver North her freshman year of college!  It is a bond she shares with many other young people who come to know conservatism through a Young America’s Foundation campus lecture and then go on to work in the Conservative Movement to give others that same life-changing experience.

Upon graduating with degrees in political science and psychology, Nicole completed a one-year fellowship with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in the Office of Intergovernmental and International Affairs and served as a national field director for a mass based youth effort, managing a staff of twelve as they recruited young conservatives across the country to become volunteers and mobilized for the fall 2002 season.  Nicole graduated with her Master in Public Policy (MPP) degree with a concentration in Nonprofit Management and Leadership summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota in 2007.

In late 2002, Nicole began her tenure with Young America’s Foundation by spending two and a half years as President Ron Robinson’s assistant.  She then spent time co-authoring the book, Funding Fathers: The Unsung Heroes of the Conservative Movement  (Regnery Publishing, Washington, D.C., 2008), with Ron Robinson which profiles the most important philanthropic contributions to advance freedom and free enterprise and the individuals who sacrificed to provide those gifts.

Nicole has assumed the position of director of foundation relations in the headquarters office.  In that capacity, Nicole advises private and family foundations how best to pass their values and ideas to the next generation of American leaders and builds partnerships to identify mutually-held goals and advance the principles of freedom and liberty among young people.

She and her husband, Eric, joined the Reagan Ranch Board of Governors in June 2005.  They have a son, E.J., who was born in 2009, and reside in Ashburn, Virginia.