Nicole Hellthaler (RYT-200) has her Master’s in Public Service from the University of Arkansas’ Clinton School of Public Service where she originally began working with Prison Yoga Project on her capstone project to provide a set of tools for program measurement and evaluation.

Previously, Nicole worked as a high school educator with an at-risk population, where she studied and implemented trauma-informed responses to misbehavior to help her students achieve their goals. She has also worked in Cape Town, supporting yoga instructors working with children with autism, and in Vietnam where she taught teachers how to use trauma-informed techniques in their classes for improved classroom management. Nicole has a passion for social justice, prison reform, and yoga; all rooted in her desire for restorative justice as an alternative to punitive punishment and its negative effects that she witnessed while working in the classroom.

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