Nicole serves as Sustainability Asst. General Counsel for Mars Wrigley. In this role she provides proactive guidance to embed sustainability legal considerations into business initiatives. Previously, Nicole was head of ESG strategic initiatives and human rights at Verizon where she helped to develop Verizon’s ESG strategy and drove the integration of ESG concepts and considerations into business decision-making across corporate strategy, products, services, and operations. She also launched Verizon’s dedicated business and human rights team. In prior
roles, Nicole led teams and had global responsibility for human rights for internet brands including Yahoo, Aol, HuffPost, Tumblr and Flickr.
Prior to joining Yahoo, Nicole worked as an attorney at Schulte, Roth & Zabel, LLP, as an international policy fellow at Human Rights First, and as a human rights consultant to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Nicole also worked at the UN in the Office
of the Legal Counsel, as well as at the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the Special Department for War Crimes in Sarajevo.
Nicole serves as an adjunct law professor teaching Corporate Sustainability and Transnational Business and Human Rights at Fordham University School of Law. Nicole received her LL.M. in International Legal Studies from New York University School of Law; her J.D. from Boston
College Law School; and her B.A., magna cum laude, in Politics and Sociology from Brandeis University.