About
Helping individuals and organizations strive for equity and succeed in creating inclusive change.
Gray Nicolas Consulting LLC provides equity-focused services backed by research and experience. Gray Nicolas Consulting helps individuals and organizations striving toward diversity, equity ,and inclusion by supporting their efforts and providing trainings and resources to help them succeed and meet their goals.
Dr. Nakia Gray-Nicolas founded Gray Nicolas Consulting LLC with the expressed goal of challenging bias in education, disrupting inequitable learning outcomes for traditionally marginalized student populations (i.e., Black and Latino/a/x), and helping teachers and educational leaders make impactful changes in their practices.
Gray Nicolas Consulting LLC provides services in the following areas:
College and Career Readiness Trainings and Workshops
Curriculum Development
Professional Development for Teachers and School Leaders
Editing and Writing Services
Nakia M. Gray-Nicolas, EdD
Dr. Nakia M. Gray-Nicolas is a scholar-educator and life-long learner with 15 years of experience in youth services, nonprofit management, higher education administration, secondary teaching (7-12), college and graduate-level teaching, and research. In these roles, she has gained and honed her experience in program and curriculum design and development, program and student assessment, supervision and coaching/mentoring, and teaching at various levels in various disciplines. She also has provided editing and writing services for the last 10 years.
Currently, Dr. Gray-Nicolas is an assistant professor of educational leadership. Her scholarly research examines college readiness, access, and the persistence of traditionally marginalized students, distributed leadership and community engagement, and the intersectionality and experience of Black women in academia. She has presented her work at local, national, and international conferences and meetings including, the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, the University Council of Education Administration (UCEA) annual convention, and the International Conference on Education and Social Justice. Her work has been published as book chapters and articles in journals such as the Journal for School Leadership, Education Policy Analysis Archives, and Race Ethnicity Education. She recently co-edited the book (Re)Building Bi/Multilingual Leaders for Socially Just Communities.
Dr. Gray-Nicolas holds a B.A. in English from Cornell University and two M.S.Ed degrees (English Education and Inclusive Special Education) from the Syracuse University Graduate School of Education. She earned her doctorate in Educational Leadership at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education, Culture and Human Development.