Nicole serves as the leader for a program called Math Buddies, where SNHU Education majors spend time working with children whose teachers have identified them as needing additional math support. While it is certainly important to offer these children the support they need to be successful and provide additional capacity for the teachers to do their important work, what's equally important is that Nicole is leading a team of her peers to see what student support looks like at Beech Street; a school where 37 languages are spoken and many of the students are refugees who have been placed by the United Nations in our city. Nicole understands the transformative role education can have in a child's life and is committed to doing what she can to create opportunities for children, regardless of their parent's income. Many of our students request student teaching placements at schools in the suburbs, they're nervous about the thought of being placed in an inner-city school with high rates of poverty and food insecurity. Nicole is on a mission to change this. She knows that these schools need dedicated, passionate, enthusiastic teachers the most.