Nicole Browning

Nicole Browning serves as Executive Director for College Track, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting first-generation college students in getting into and through college and into their first careers. With a career in educational leadership beginning in 2007, she started as a high school AP English teacher focused on students in marginalized communities before advancing to roles as assistant principal, principal, and professor. She later served as superintendent of a charter network where all charters were approved and students thrived, and she achieved the notable accomplishment of winning two California's Distinguished schools back-to-back. In 2015, she completed her PhD after earning both of her master's degrees from Cal State East Bay, where she later returned as a professor teaching educational leadership to other superintendents. Her primary focus remains supporting first-generation college students, developing leaders, and creating strong student-centered systems. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated.