Nicole Lim is the Executive Director of the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center. She has earned advanced degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and University of San Francisco School of Law. She is Pomo and has worked for the National Indian Justice Center (NIJC) and the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center (CIMCC) since 1996.

As Executive Director of the CIMCC, she works to develop exhibits, educational programs and curricular resources that represent Native American perspectives. She founded the Tribal Youth Ambassadors program in 2010 the program received the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from the President’s Committee on Arts and Humanities in 2016. She regularly conducts cultural competency training for K through 12 educators and consults on cultural intelligence training and the elimination of historical bias from California curricula. She conducts professional development, consulting and training on the decolonization of Native American narratives, research, collections, and partnerships and co facilitates the Native American Museum Studies Institute at Joseph Myers Center for Native American Issues at the University of California at Berkeley.

As a Staff Attorney for NIJC, Nicole conducts training and curriculum development for several areas of Indian Law, including Federal Indian Law, Juvenile Justice, Sacred Sites and Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Creative Youth Development and more. She co-edited, On Indian Ground: California, the first in a series of books that focus on best practices for K-12 educators of Native students.

In 2010, Nicole was recognized as the National Center for American Indian Enterpise Development’s class of Forty Under 40. California Governor Edmund Brown appointed her to the Board of Directors, 4th District Agricultural Association, Sonoma-Marin Fair, where she served from 2013-2017. Nicole is the Vice President of the California is Association of Museums (CAM) and formerly co-chaired CAM’s Government Relations committee. She also serves as the Secretary for the National Tribal GIS program and is a member of the Native American Advisory Committee to the University of California Office of the President.