Nicole Brewer (she/her) is an actor, director, and educator who was compelled to speak out against the harmful and unnecessary practice of cultural erasure in the theatre industrial complex. She has shared her approach on anti-racist theatre at various panels and has presented at Theatre Communications Group conferences; National Black Theatre Festival; and Goldsmiths, University of London in the United Kingdom. Nicole is currently faculty at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and is a 2021 recipient of a Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival medallion. Nicole’s a proud member of the 2018 artEquity National Facilitator Training cohort. She resides with her two children on land stewarded by the Piscataway and Conoy colonially known as Washington, DC.