Nicole Ballinger has a decade of communications experience in both print and online media. Her work includes website design and content, print design and content, exhibit design, and public relations. She has experience working with artists, photographers, reporters, and database developers, and can manage projects from concept to final print production.

In addition to her independent work, Nicole is currently employed by the Lake Champlain Basin Program as their Communications and Publications Coordinator, where she serves as the webmaster and lead staff on communications projects. She currently serves on the Marketing Committee for the Vermont Lake Champlain Quadricentennial Commission and is a former Board member of Vermont State-Wide Environmental Education Programs and Climbing Resource Access Group of Vermont.

Nicole holds a Master of Science degree in Natural Resource Planning from the University of Vermont and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology with a Minor in Studio Art from Skidmore College. Additional courses and seminars in website and graphic design software, as well as, social marketing have sharpened her skills. Prior to moving to Vermont in 1995, Nicole was an Interpretative Park Ranger at Big Bend National Park in Texas and North Cascades National Park in Washington.

Nicole derives inspiration from the natural beauty and local communities in Vermont and in nearby New York and Quebec, and she enjoys hiking, skiing, canoeing, running, yoga, and sailing, depending on what suits her—and Vermont’s fickle weather—on any given day. She resides in Burlington, Vermont with her husband, Peter Warner.