Mrs. Nicole Anderson

Mrs. Nicole Anderson joined McPherson & Jacobson in 2018.

In 25 years of service in education, Nicole serves as an educational consultant and professional development facilitator focused on building capacity of site and district leaders as well as school boards around the state of California.

She held the position as the first Equity Executive in the history of the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) for four years. In this role, she led work focused on equity and diversity including the facilitation of statewide professional learning for ACSA leaders and state board, coordination of the California Equity Leadership Alliance, as well as the Equity Network for CSBA members. She has locked arms with a team of consultants, whose work continues to leave a lasting imprint on the landscape of education.

As an educational practitioner, Nicole served as an Elementary Principal in Vallejo, California where she held numerous positions as a site administrator for 10 years, which included High School Assistant Principal/Dean and Vice Principal in Vallejo City Unified School District.

She is honored to stand on the shoulders of her grandfather, Jesse M. Bethel, the namesake of the high school in Vallejo, California who also was the first African American President for Vallejo City USD as well as CSBA. She continues to inspire organizational leaders, practitioners, and community stakeholders across multiple industries who have partnered on the journey to systemically close equity gaps in the data through building effective school boards as well as school and district leaders.