Inspired by the natural world and the personal stories of those living within the ecological crisis.
Nicole Williams, Journalist
Nicole Williams is an environmental journalist, specializing in telling the personal stories of those adapting to climate change and chemical contamination.
With training in creative writing, literature, and art history from Smith College and research and science writing from Johns Hopkins University, Nicole is experienced in distilling complex topics and making them accessible to broad audiences.
As a journalist, Nicole looks at the changing world and what each story means in this moment.
Her work has been published with Inside Climate News, Undark, The Revelator, Sierra Magazine, The Springfield Republican, and elsewhere. Recently, she won an honorable mention in science and technology reporting from NENPA for her investigative reporting.
After an internship with Orion Magazine, Nicole fell in love with the editorial side of storytelling. This led her to pursue a traditional publishing training program at New York University, earning a certification, and she now takes on freelance editorial clients in addition to her writing.
Resilience, adaptability, and individual and collective activism are all themes Nicole looks for in a story.
During her time at Johns Hopkins University, Nicole received rigorous training in solutions-based climate journalism and editing-specific instruction, which has informed both her writing and editing practices.
Nicole believes that storytelling, not data, is what drives change. She continues to report on climate-related issues and takes on select clients and organizations for editorial work while working on a book about her experiences as a mother, journalist, and member of a community contaminated by PFAS. She also writes a monthly Substack on how to navigate eco-grief and climate anxiety called come with me.
Curiousity, Empathy, and Integrity.
There are a million ways to tell a story, but these three tenets are the guiding forces in Nicole’s work.