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Meet Nicole.
I work at the intersection of ecological reality, institutional behavior, and collective decisionmaking capacity.
Over the past two decades, my work has moved across food law, public policy, community organizing, coalition building, and regenerative practice. I have worked inside institutions and alongside grassroots initiatives. I have studied systems change and participated in it. Across all of these terrains, one question has continued to surface:
Why is cooperation so difficult precisely when it is most necessary?
Movements for food sovereignty, bioregional regeneration, climate resilience, solidarity economies, animal protection, and democratic renewal all call for large-scale collaboration. They call for coalitions, networks, shared governance, cross-sector alignment, and long-term coordination across difference. Yet in practice, coordination frequently stalls, fractures, or collapses under strain.
My work is rooted in the recognition that cooperation is not primarily a moral appeal or a technical design problem. It is a capacity problem.
Shared decisionmaking capacity depends on relational infrastructure, perceptual clarity, material stability, and institutional conditions that allow people to sense, deliberate, and act together. Under ecological, economic, and political volatility, these capacities weaken. When that happens, even well-intentioned actors struggle to align.
I develop frameworks and tools to help leaders and practitioners recognize these dynamics and design for coordination that matches present conditions rather than inherited assumptions.
My book, Feeding the Future: Restoring the Planet and Healing Ourselves (Georgetown University Press, 2026), explores how bioregional regeneration requires humans to act as a keystone species within living systems. The work I do here extends that inquiry into governance and coordination: how do we organize ourselves in ways that protect the living world’s capacity to regenerate?
At its core, this work strengthens the human capacities needed to care for our shared ecological fate.