Who I am
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| BIPOC reparation campaign pitch |
NICOLE MCNEILL |
Visionary • Lineage Keeper
Nicole McNeill is a cultural strategist and strategy coach who leverages her expertise to consult with underserved BIPOC creatives and entrepreneurs. Nicole helps to preserve BIPOC communities and amplify BIPOC lineage through coaching, workshops, and collaborative reparative campaigns.
With a deep understanding of cultural dynamics and systemic challenges, Nicole strategically connects BIPOC creatives and entrepreneurs with opportunities in a way that respects and uplifts their heritage. By facilitating visibility, brand development, and market placement, she ensures that BIPOC creatives and entrepreneurs are not only recognized but valued within the broader cultural landscape.
In addition to her work as a cultural strategist, Nicole is committed to social justice. A portion of the proceeds from the sales of the services and products of BIPOC creatives and entrepreneurs she helps to promote are donated to partnered nonprofits, which works on reparation campaigns aimed at addressing systemic inequalities.
Through this initiative, Nicole is not only fostering artistic careers but also contributing to meaningful change within BIPOC communities, ensuring that the work continues to have a lasting impact on both culture and society. By blending her knowledge in media arts with her passion for cultural preservation, Nicole McNeill plays a key role in creating a more equitable and culturally conscious space for BIPOC creatives, entrepreneurs, and the communities they serve.
Nicole McNeill was raised in the African American community of Greenville, Jersey City in a house rich in history, where The Manhattans once practiced—she is proud to be related to Richard Taylor of the original group. Her family has Super 8 film footage from the 1960s, now on VHS, of those very sessions. Nicole also shares lineage with the legendary educator and civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune, and her family has documented family reunions at Bethune-Cookman College from the 1990s.
Nicole earned a B.A. from New Jersey City University, where she specialized in media, with a focus on film and television editing and experimental filmmaking. During her time there, she created two experimental films—Father-Figure and A New Graft: Sociology of the Family—which explored Black family life and history.
These works were screened at venues such as the Millennium Theater in NYC, Loew’s Theater in Journal Square, The Jersey City Museum, Ellis Island, The New Jersey Video and Filmmaker's Festival which screened at Rutgers in Newark where she won 2nd place, and the Mana Contemporary. These films are archived at NJCU student archives.
Professionally, she has worked with a range of respected institutions and productions:
- Video editor for documentary on Lee Hagan with African Studies Professor Marie Antoinette, featuring interviews with Ben Jones, Melvin Van Peebles, Amiri Baraka, and Senator Cory Booker
- Intern with Scout Productions for Queer Eye for the Straight Guy in 2005
- Video Editor at NJN’s Another View, about Black politics hosted by Candace Kelley about Black politics
- Production Assistant on NBC’s Mercy shot in Greenville, Jersey City
- Production Assistant with Jingles Production in Weehawken, NJ who worked on the soundtrack with the sound production team for Fast & Furious
- Production Assistant on the pilot Storyforia with Little Airplane Productions shot at Silvercup Studios, directed by Mustapha Khan—an Emmy-winning filmmaker who began his career as a PA on Spike Lee’s School Daze. The project was pitched to Nickelodeon executives.
- Producer for AmeriCorps on a WWII film for a WWII exhibit at the Jersey Museum in East Orange, NJ
- Content Writer in Israel, where she lived for two years for a binary option online company.
- Video Editor in Atlanta, working with the grant writer from Georgia Tech on a Jersey City gentrification project
Alongside her media career, she developed her skills in pitching and storytelling at Toastmasters and through the use of comedic improv workshops. For healing her own issues with codependency from generational trauma, she embraced a path as a Shaman and Recovery Coach, specializing in codependency for healing generational trauma in BIPOC. Many BIPOC create from pain but lack tools to fully heal.
Nicole developed shamanic workshops to help BIPOC overcome blockages to reconnect with their authentic visual voice and transform trauma into power through the use of shadow work.
Other services include:
FREE personalized strategy, messaging, and content support for your mission, plus guidance on collaborative market placements via contacts with entrepreneurial non-profits serving BIPOC communities.
FREE Workshops via City Contracts facilitated at your local libraries, community centers, cultural centers, and coworking spaces serving the BIPOC demographic.
FREE Workshops via City Contracts facilitated at your local libraries, community centers, cultural centers, and coworking spaces serving the BIPOC demographic.