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Nicole Truesdell is an American anthropologist currently serving as the President Elect and Secretary-Treasurer of the Association of Black Anthropologists and Treasurer-Elect of the Association of Black Sociologists.

Education
Truesdell received her B.A in anthropology from Beloit College in 2003, having been a McNair Scholar from 2001-2003. She went on to earn her Master's degree in biological/forensic anthropology from Louisiana State University in which she had served as the co-president of the Graduate Student Anthropology and Geography Association and graduated cum laude in 2005. She then earned her PhD in sociocultural anthropology at Michigan State University with her dissertation Race Politics: Perceptions of Race and Racism and its Impact on Rights of Citizenship in Contemporary Britain.

Career
Truesdell began her career in higher education activism at Beloit College with the creation of the Office of Academic Diversity and Inclusiveness (OADI) that centers on helping marginalized students of color succeed in college. Truesdell then went on to write The Role of Combahee in Anti-Diversity Work which was published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society in 2017. Centered around the diversity work and programs held by college faculty, this work offers and alternative way to understand diversity through intersectional Black feminist thought from the Combahee River Collective.

Alongside her involvement with the Association of Black Anthropologists and the Association of Black Sociologists, Truesdell currently serves as the Assistant Vice President for Campus Life at Brown University.