Gayle Nicholls

Pacific Oaks College Adjunct Professor in the school of Education and Human Development.

Curriculum Development Director for Digital Rain Factory ; a creative services social enterprise specialized in the art and craft of Digital Storytelling to create authentic new media.

Photography and Media Educator with the La Canada School District.

When I started writing my Masters Thesis, I realized that art, storytelling and technology have always been center-stage in my life. In the mid 1970's when most young women in my neighborhood were listening to the Jackson 5 and dancing the hustle, I had already written several notebooks full of poems, short stories and plays, taken painting classes at the Brooklyn Museum Art School and participated in a summer computer class at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

The daughter of proud Barbadian immigrants, education has always been the path to most of my life's journey. I was a frustrated prose writer at 17 year old when I entered Mt. Holyoke College. I soon realized that the renowned writer, poet, playwright and activist, Sonia Sanchez was teaching at near by Amherst College. A chance invite to a reading at her home would place me in her company. Soon there after transftered