Continually adapting teaching methods, materials, and curriculum to encourage transformative humanities-based education, Nicole inspires student curiosity and an appetite to understand and analyze our world?s collective cultural heritages, intellectual contributions, and cinema. To this end, she develops coursework that encourages reflection, shared learning, conversation, and discussions. She emphasizes deep engagement and accessibility for all learners in multi-modal courses that allow for attendance flexibility, incorporates zero-cost course materials, employs inclusive pedagogical practices learned in culturally responsive teaching workshops, and fosters a vibrant learning environment that inspires connections among peers and between course content and everyday life.