Nicole Kingdon

Nicole Kingdon is a doctoral student in the Educational Studies program with a concentration in language and literacy education at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Additionally, she is a graduate research fellow at the Center on the Ecology of Early Development (CEED), where she supports the Language & Literacy for Liberation Initiative.

Nicole is a certified 200-hour, trauma-informed yoga teacher and social-emotional learning facilitator through Breathe for Change. Her research interests are in examining how yoga and mindfulness can impact the language, literacy, and social-emotional development of economically marginalized preschool-aged children. Additionally, she aims to use cultural and ecological lenses, so the interventions are accurately designed with and for the students and teachers in the classroom. Furthermore, she plans to incorporate ways to simultaneously support teacher well-being.

As a student at Suffolk University, Nicole was a member of the Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program (a research preparatory program for first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students), a Jumpstart AmeriCorps Member, a certified childcare teacher at Bright Horizons, a Research Assistant in Suffolk’s Early Childhood Risk and Resilience Lab, and a teaching assistant for several courses.

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