Nicole Nguyen (she/her) is associate professor of social foundations of education. As a critical geographer of education, Nicole ethnographically investigates the intersections of national security, war, and US public schooling. Nicole teaches classes on the school-prison nexus, the sociology of education, and qualitative research. From 2018 to 2022, she led the College's Creating Cultural Competencies initiative, which included curricula and teacher workshops related to countering anti-Muslim racism in schools and classrooms. With Dan Cohen and Alice Huff, she co-created the Critical Geographies of Education specialty group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), which works to promote, organize, and advance critical geographic explorations of education and schooling;  support the scholarly growth of critical geographers of education; and contribute to social movements related to struggles over schooling.