Podcasts, Documentary Film, Public Lectures
- August 2025 I Creative Force and Sly Civility I A Moment with Erik Fleming
- March 2025 I Black Writers Read: S5 E17: Donna J. Nicol
- December 2024 I Educational Activism with Donna J. Nicol I The Curious Professor
- November 2024 | Black Woman on Board | New Books Network
- November 2024 I Black Woman on Board with Dr. Donna Nicol I Civics and Coffee
- October 2024 | Trusteeship Podcast Episode 50: Black Woman on Board – The Claudia Hampton Story | AGB
- October 2024 | Black Woman on Board I The Academic Life with Dr. Christina Gessler
- September 2024 | The Role of Black Women in the Fight for Civil Rights | Black on Black Education
- September 2024 | What’s Up with…Affirmative Action? – The Curiosity Podcast: What’s Up with…?
- September 2024 | Ep.293 – “What Would Claudia Hampton Do?” W/ Dr. Donna J. Nicol | What’s Good? w/ Charlie Taylor
- August 2024 | S7,E19: Dr. Donna J. Nicol – Shining a spotlight on Women | Women Winning at Writing
- August 2024 | ‘Sly Civility,’ A Reagan-appointed Radical Educator’s Heroic Effort to Save the System From Itself – Scheer Intelligence
- August 2024 | Black Women and Educational Activism – Dr. Donna J. Nicol on Get On Code
- August 2024 | Ep. 254 – Dr. Donna J. Nicol – The Rob Burgess Show
- July 2024 | Back to School: Lifting the Bar for Our Kids – Backtalk by Successful Black Parenting
- July 2024 | Championing Educational Equity: Dr. Donna J. Nicol on Claudia Hampton – CJ Knows Show
- July 2024 | Black Woman on Board. Claudia Hampton and the fight to save Affirmative Action at CSU. Talking with author Dr. Donna Nicol – The San Francisco Experience
- July 2024 | Black Woman on Board – The Interesting Times
- July 2024 | Dr. Claudia Hampton & the History of Affirmative Action in California – Unsung History
- June 2024 | Empowering Educational Equity: A Conversation with Dr. Donna J. Nicol – The Relatable Voice
- June 2024 | DR DONNA NICOL; Author, ‘Black Woman on Board… Claudia Hampton…Fight to Save Affirmative Action’ – Conversations with Calvin; We the SpecIEs
- June 2024 | Love & Life | Dr. Donna J. Nicol – WURD Radio
- June 2024 | Dr. Donna J Nicol joins our special guest host Dr. Nii-Quartelai Quartey
- June 2024 | LE 347: Sly Civility: The Secret Weapon in Advocacy with Dr. Donna Nicol
- May 2024 | Dr, Is The US Higher Education System Broken? With Dr Donna Nicol – TinoTalk
- May 2024 | Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars – The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
- May 2024 | Dr. Donna J. Nicol, Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action
- May 2021 | Featured Guest – Racial Justice in the Academy – Amplifying The Voices of Black Women, Insufferable Academics Podcast, Season 5, Episode 5
- February 2021 | Featured Guest Commentator, The Big Picture: A Race for America (Topic: Race and Philanthropy), Documentary Series of Al Jazeera English
- September 2020 | Featured Guest on Fresh Off the Vote with Dr. Jennifer Yee “Caring in a World that Doesn’t Self Care” (Discussing our research on radical self care)
- September 2020 | Featured Panelist, “Rhock the Vote Community Voter Education and Mobilization Forum”
- August 2020 | Guest Lecturer, Change and Continuity in Black Social Movements (for the CSUDH Osher Lifelong Learning Institute), (Passcode: Q%aj$3×6)
- August 2020 | Guest Moderator, An Afternoon with Ambassador Andrew Young: Icon of the Movement (for the CSUDH Osher Lifelong Learning Institute)
- March 2017 | Featured Guest on Outspoken – A Center for Oral and Public History Podcast at California State University Fullerton discussing “Women’s Access to Power – Research as Resistance”
- March 2011 | Snippet from Using Cultural Capital to Challenge Master Narratives: Bringing Habitus to Graduate School and Research” CSUF Graduate Forum on Diversity and Graduate Education, California State University Fullerton, (Co-Presented with Dr. Jennifer Yee, Asian American Studies, CSUF)
News and Opinion
- March 2025 I CSUSB Hosts ‘Black Woman on Board,’ a discussion on Claudia Hampton’s trailblazing legacy – Inside CSUSB
- January 2025 | How Cal State’s first Black woman trustee influenced the university system – EdSource
- June 2024 | The Importance Of Black Women On College Boards Of Trustees – Forbes
- June 2024 | Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action – Women Writers, Women’s Books
- June 2024 | Uncovering the vital role Black women play in education – All Indiana
- May 2024 | Making Waves: May 2024 – CSULB
- May 2024 | Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars – WIA Report
- May 2024 | The Bronx Social Justice and Anti-Violence Forums – BronxNet
- April 2024 | Meet Donna J. Nicol – VoyageLA
- March 2024 | Donna J. Nicol’s “Black Woman on Board” – The Page 99 Test
- November 2023 | #SpeakingUp on Affirmative Action and the Hidden Hand of University Governance
- February 2022 | Racism and the roots of conservative philanthropy in the US
- February 2021 | “Activism for Profit – America’s Anti-Affirmative Action Industry” – Al Jazeera.com
- 2021 | Chairing as Self-Care: Strategies for Combatting the Cultural Identity Taxation Trap for Black Women Chairs
- September 2020 | “Netflix and Faux Allyship” – Random Lengths Newspaper – Los Angeles South Bay
- June 2018 | “Donna Nicol: A Change Agent for Africana Studies” – LA Sentinel Newspaper
- June 2016 | “CSUF’s Donna Nicol Says Divide Be4tween Older and Younger Generation Frustrates the Feminist Movement” – Orange County Register Newspaper
- April 2014 | “Ban Bossy Movement Needs More Depth” – Orange County Register Newspaper (2014)
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