Nicole Avery Nichols is an award-winning reporter and editor, who is passionate about the stories of everyday people: How they live, love, grieve, struggle and laugh out loud. Avery Nichols is a storyteller who inherited the gift from ancestors who fought for equality so that she could, one day, ensure that the stories of under-represented people are told. She is a native New Yorker, who has lived in metro Detroit for more than two decades. She received graduate and undergraduate degrees from Syracuse University and Tuskegee University respectively.