Nichole Christian

Director of Communications and Marketing – Tech Town  

Panelist - 5:00pm, Thursday, April 7th- Reflections: Lead Partners Panel Discussion

Nichole Christian is a creative at heart, using words and the creation of stories as her chosen art form. She was formerly a member of the Detroit Free Press editorial board, writing about education policy and children’s issues. She began her career at the St. Petersburg Times and later became a staff writer at the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Time magazine, where she was Detroit bureau chief. As a reporter at the New York Times, Christian was among the reporters on the newspaper’s metro staff who produced “Portraits of Grief,” chronicling the lives of people killed in the September 11 attacks. Christian more than fifty of those portraits, part of the Times’s A Nation Challenged special section, which was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for public service.