Background
Nicole Brodeur was born in New Jersey, United States.
Nicole Brodeur
201 Mullica Hill Rd, Glassboro, NJ 08028, United States
Rowan University where Nicole Brodeur received her Bachelor of Arts degree.
201 Mullica Hill Rd, Glassboro, NJ 08028, United States
Rowan University where Nicole Brodeur received her Bachelor of Arts degree.
Nicole Brodeur with her niece Danielle Lindsey, her cousin Lee Ann Berman, and her sister Suzie Schwartz.
Nicole Brodeur interviews drummer Fred Coury during a talk called "Longevity" at Upstream Music Conference on June 1, 2018. Photo by Jim Bennett.
(Keep Singing is the inspiring story of Eloise Vaughn and ...)
Keep Singing is the inspiring story of Eloise Vaughn and Patsy Clarke, two women who became the unlikeliest of activists and gave a new face to the fight against bigotry and hatred. In 1995, after each lost a son to AIDS and after failing to persuade the notoriously homophobic senator Jesse Helms to soften his antigay stance, the two women formed Mothers Against Jesse in Congress to drive him from office. Their journey would carry them from their quiet North Carolina homes to the stage of the 1996 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Their battle would put their names and faces in the pages of People Magazine and The New York Times. And their lives would be changed forever, driven now by the desire that even in death their children would be given the simple human respect that is due to everyone.
https://www.amazon.com/Keep-Singing-Mothers-Their-Against-ebook/dp/B007AHFWO0
2001
Nicole Brodeur was born in New Jersey, United States.
Nicole Brodeur attended Rowan University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication and media studies. It was during her studies, that she began writing.
Nicole Brodeur lived throughout the country working as a reporter and columnist. She is a metro and feature columnist for The Seattle Times, the position she has been holding since January 1999. In this position, she conceives, reports and writes one weekly, issue-oriented metro column and one Sunday feature, "Nicole & Co.," that focuses on an author, artist, or celebrity in the local or national spotlight. She works with editors, photographers, videographers, and page designers through the final publication. In June 2019, she also became a news features writer at The Seattle Times. The focus of her column is to set up a conversation between herself and the reader and address topics that are not ordinarily covered in the paper.
Before her work at The Seattle Times, she was a metro columnist at The Raleigh News & Observer from October 1994 till December 1998. She conceived, reported, and wrote columns on local and national issues, as well as people in the community. She worked with editors, photographers, and page designers. During that time, she appeared as a public speaker and radio and television guest. Before joining The Raleigh News & Observer, Brodeur was a feature writer and columnist at the Orange County Register, working there from September 1986 till September 1994.
Besides her career in journalism, Brodeur is the co-author of the book Keep Singing: Two Mothers, Two Sons, and Their Fight Against Jesse Helms. It was born from an article Brodeur wrote for People about Patsy Clarke and Eloise Vaughn, two mothers whose lives were brought together when their gay sons died of AIDS. The book, with the help and guidance of Brodeur, was written by Clarke and Vaughn, each authoring alternating chapters. Clarke and Vaughn, one conservative and one liberal, met after the deaths of their sons, both named Mark and came from similar privileged backgrounds. Neither woman was aware of her son's homosexuality, and each was forced to deal with her son's death alone since both were widows. Clarke, whose husband was a good friend of antigay Senator Jesse Helms, wrote the senator asking him to put aside his personal beliefs in support of AIDS research funding. Helms's cold response to the widow of his old friend urged Clark, along with Vaughn, to form MAJIC, Mothers Against Jesse in Congress, an organization that focused on unseating Helms and gaining political support for AIDS issues.
More than a book on politics, this work focuses on two women in their later years of life-changing and adapting their opinions and beliefs in order to work through their tragedies. This story is a powerful lesson in how personal experience can be the root of political change.
Nicole Brodeur is a popular journalist who is considered to be a communications professional with more than twenty years of experience in conceiving, researching, reporting, and writing news and human-interest stories and opinion columns. For merits in her work, she won some awards for journalism.
Brodeur also co-authored the book, Keep Singing: Two Mothers, Two Sons, and Their Fight Against Jesse Helms, which received very positive reviews from readers as well as reviewers.
(Keep Singing is the inspiring story of Eloise Vaughn and ...)
2001
Quotations:
"I like stories that make a change, but I also like to write about things that readers can relate to, like the time I had to stay with my ex-husband during a days-long power failure. I also like to help to right wrongs, and give a voice to people who may not be able to have one otherwise."
"I love the fact that I get to craft it all into a story - to write for a living! Amazing!"
Brodeur's favorite thing about Seattle is being able to see the water in almost every direction. And if it's not water, it's snow-capped mountains.
Her guilty pleasure is the Ketel One Martini with blue-cheese-stuffed olives.
Nicole Brodeur is married and has children.
