Nicole Hendricks provides technical assistance to federal grantees, focusing on improving outcomes for children of incarcerated parents and families impacted by incarceration. Prior to joining the CSG Justice Center, she was a professor at Holyoke Community College, where she co-founded and led Western Mass CORE, a higher education in prison program that offers college courses inside local jails. During her tenure, she also chaired the Department of Criminal Justice and coordinated the Gender and Women’s Studies program. Nicole’s previous experience includes work as a research associate at the Vera Institute of Justice, where she served as the principal investigator of an NIJ-funded study on law enforcement relations with Arab American communities post-9/11 and conducted research on policing, violence prevention, victimization, and racial disparities in the criminal legal system. She received a BA in anthropology and African American studies from Wesleyan University and an MPA from New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service.
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