Nicole Johnson is an artist and art educator from Kingston, Jamaica. She is currently a Full Time Lecturer in the Art & Art Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Prior to joining the faculty at TC, Nicole previously worked as Senior Lecturer in Art Education at the School of Visual Arts at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Jamaica. She earned

her doctorate in Art Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and MFA and MAE degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Her research interests include the professional identity development and lifelong learning of collegiate art [teacher] educators, art education faculty members of color’s experiences in academia, and critical anticolonial art education.