Nicolette is a rancher, attorney, and writer. Much of her
time is spent speaking and writing about the problems of industrialized
livestock production, including the book
Righteous
Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms (HarperCollins,
2009) and four essays she has written on the subject for the New York Times. She has written for Huffington Post, CHOW, and Earth Island Journal. Previously, she was the senior attorney for
the environmental organization Waterkeeper Alliance, where she was in charge of
the organization's campaign to reform the concentrated livestock and poultry
industry, and, before that, an attorney for National Wildlife Federation. Nicolette
served two terms on the city council for the City of Kalamazoo, Michigan. She
received her Juris Doctorate,
cum laude,
from the University of Michigan and her B.A. in Biology and French from Kalamazoo College.
