Nicole Pollard is Curator of Lived Culture at Philadelphia Contemporary, where she has also worked as Associate Curator and Program Coordinator. In the past she has worked as a Project Manager at Temple Contemporary, a Curatorial Assistant for No Longer Empty, and an Exhibit Designer for Museum of Impact and Leeway Foundation's 25th anniversary exhibition: Making Space. She holds an MFA in Museum Exhibition Planning + Design from the University of the Arts and a BFA in Art Education from Virginia Commonwealth University.