She has worked for Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and across Canada, especially in the Interior of British Columbia. She has practiced law in British Columbia for 10 years, representing Indigenous Peoples, including in the Cohen Commission on the Decline of the Fraser River Sockeye Salmon and recently as part of the legal team for the UBCIC, Secwepemc and Okanagan Intervenors in the Tsilhqot’in case before the Supreme Court of Canada. In the course of the Cohen Commission, she prepared submissions on Bill C-38 as it was proposed at the time and the potential negative effect it could have on salmon stocks and Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Nicole also reports and academically analyzes international environmental negotiations, mainly under the Convention on Biological Diversity, especially relating to indigenous traditional knowledge and access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing.