In 2005 Nicole joined City Parks Foundation (the non-profit side of the New York City Parks & Recreation Department) and became the video teacher at Hook Productions.
In 2007 (after another trip to India) She was brought on by the New York City Parks & Recreation Department itself to be make use of 10 new Sony a100 digital SLR cameras and become the photography teacher within the same RECYouth Program at Sunset Park Recreation Center in Brooklyn.
By 2008 she was assigned to manage her own multimedia Computer Resource Center at Hamilton Fish Recreation Center in the Lower East Side, NYC.