Nicole Anderson has served as an advocate and facilitator of educational equitywork in numerous ways around the nation. She has served as the Diversity andEqual Access Executive for the Association of California School Administrators(ACSA) for the past four years. She recently served as an Elementary Principal inVallejo, Ca. before joining the ACSA staff. She served as a site administrator for 10years, which also included being a High School Assistant Principal/Dean and VicePrincipal in Vallejo City Unified School District. She was also a Leadership Teacher,Spanish Teacher and Activities Director for 6 years at Jesse M. Bethel High Schoolin Vallejo, which is named after her grandfather. She follows in his footsteps as anadvocate for equity and civil rights for students of color in the city of Vallejo aswell as around the state of California. As an ACSA members, she served at theChair of ACSA’s Equity Committee (formerly called the EADS -Equity,Achievement, and Diversity for Success Committee) where she focused on leadingthe work of implementing a system that will effectively address the beliefs ofACSA around equity for students and leaders in California.  In her role, shecontinues to support the work in “truly” ensuring that equity is at the forefront ofour work so that all students and educational leaders are successful in achievingtheir educational success!