Nichole Christian is a creative chameleon. She’s also a writer and Detroit native who began her career on staff for some of the nation’s top news outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, The New York Times, and the Detroit Free Press. She is the co-author of Canvas Detroit, and was most recently creative director, editor and lead writer for A Life Speaks (from the Kresge Foundation. Her writing appears in the books: A Detroit Anthology; Portraits 9/11/01: The Collected “Portraits of Grief” from the New York Times; Dear Dad: Reflections on Fatherhood, and the arts journal, Essay’d.