Nicole Zwirn has a range of experience establishing and developing sustainable agriculture and promoting environmental concerns. In 2011, as a counselor at the Young Naturalist Summer Camp in Orlando, Florida, she promoted environmental conservation by leading groups of children aged 5 to 12 around Mead Botanical Gardens where she taught them about wildlife, wetlands, and flora. During her first semester at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Nicole Zwirn volunteered at Growing Gardens where she assisted in the production of crops for local farmer’s markets and helped manage invasive species.

A student at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 2012 to 2016, Nicole Zwirn studied evolutionary biology, ecology, and environmental studies. While earning her BS, she remained engaged with environmental issues during her summers by working in communities and firms dedicated to producing sustainable solutions to environmental challenges. In the summer of 2014 she worked on the Lotan Kibbutz in the Arabah Valley in Israel, where she designed a permaculture system for a new eco-village, contributing to the sustainability of its food production as well as its organic waste disposal. In the summer of 2015, she served as a wind energy intern at Siemens Wind Power. In this position she climbed wind turbines to assist technicians with adjustments and wrote multiple site procedure manuals.

Since graduating in May 2016, she has maintained an interest in bee and water conservation as well as sustainability.