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Sinda Nichols ’05

Director of the Center for Community and Civic Engagement, Center for Community and Civic Engagement

Education & Professional History

Sinda Nichols ’05 has directed the Center for Community and Civic Engagement at Carleton College since 2020. She identifies as a higher education boundary spanner focused on fostering civic agency across institutions and communities. She has a bachelor’s from Carleton and a master’s in social work from The University of Texas at Austin. 


At Carleton since 2020.

Highlights & Recent Activity

Organizations & Scholarly Affiliations

  • Place-Based Justice Network
  • Campus Compact
  • Imagining America
  • Project Pericles