About Nicole

A dreamer and a doer, a partner and a parent, a lifelong member of the United Church of Christ, and ordained minister since 2005, Nicole believes the church can be a powerful place for personal and social transformation. She is currently serving as Pastor of Community United Church of Christ in Boulder and before that she served two congregations in Massachusetts and a congregation in California.

She’s served churches in New England, before co-founding a congregation of progressive Christians, agnostics, spiritual independents and other people of conscience in Silicon Valley, now called Urban Sanctuary San Jose. She is dedicated to fresh expressions of spirituality, the search for meaning and religious community.

Nicole is committed to building a just world for all and was a member of the Interfaith Tent at Occupy Oakland as part of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. In San Jose, she supported efforts to ban fracking in California and was a member of People Acting in Community Together, working on the movement for Black Lives, the Rapid Response Network, Night Walk and more.

Currently she is a member of the Faith Leaders Caucus of Boulder County with Together Colorado, a volunteer with TGTHR, a local non-profit serving homeless youth, a leader with Colorado Faith Communities United to End Gun Violence, as well as GreenFaith. Nicole has also been instrumental in launching and growing the Guns to Gardens movement, where communities of faith and other non-profits host safe surrender events for unwanted firearms.

Nicole believes people of faith have a special role to play in building the world we want.