Nicole handles major research and policy publications for Spann Communications (SC).

She began her career in independent film and Public Television, receiving an Emmy award for The Right to Develop, a program on the role schools play in fostering the social and emotional development of their students. She also wrote and co-produced The River Ran Red, a historical documentary about the 1892 Homestead steel strike. Following the birth of her first child, she co-authored a series of children's science books in collaboration with her father-in-law, author Seymour Simon.

For more than a decade, she has focused on writing for nonprofit organizations and educational institutions. In addition to her work with SC, she has written outreach, marketing, fundraising, educational, and commemorative publications and speeches. Experience communicating complex ideas in the succinct terms demanded by television informs her approach to creating these products.

Nicole graduated cum laude with a BA in French literature and translation from Barnard College (New York City, 1978). She resides in the Washington, DC area with her husband, Robert Simon, a professor of computer science at George Mason University, and their two children, Joel and Benjamin.

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