Freedman, who is Jewish, was born in
Wellesley, Massachusetts. She attended
MIT, and then
Stanford University. In 2007, Freedman became head of the "Boston Bikes" initiative for the City of
Boston under Mayor
Thomas Menino. On April 3, 2012, Freedman announced that she would become the executive director of Maine Huts & Trails, transitioning into the role that April and replacing David Herring as the second full-time Executive Director for the organization. Nicole returned to the position of Director of the Boston Bikes program in January 2013. Freedman resigned from Boston Bikes in March 2015 pending a move to Seattle, Washington. Subsequently, she became the Chief of Active Transportation & Partnerships in the Seattle Department of Transportation per their organizational chart of July 2015 She was located in the Transit and Mobility group and worked on the Puget Sound Bike Share initiative as well as a new Summer Parkways program. On September 12, 2016, Nicole was appointed to be Director of Transportation for the City of Newton, MA. ==References==