Naomi Nichols is an Associate Professor (Sociology) and the Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Community-Partnered Social Justice at Trent University. Until August 2020, she was an Associate Professor (Education) at McGill University. Professor Nichols is the Principal Investigator for a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada Grant called, Data Justice: Fostering equitable data-led strategies to prevent, reduce and end youth homelessness and another called, Building from Experience: Youth-led strategies for homelessness prevention and housing stabilization. She is also a research theme lead (knowledge mobilization) for the SSHRC partnership grant: the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness and a research theme lead (prevention) for the Networks of Centres of Excellence: Making the Shift: Youth Homelessness Solutions Impacts Accelerator. Nichols’ research activities and publications span the areas of social inequality; poverty; youth homelessness; youth justice; child welfare; education; “youth at risk;” youth mental health; higher education, research impact and community-academic research collaborations. In 2014, the University of Toronto Press published her first book: Youth Work: An institutional ethnography of youth homelessness. In 2016, she produced a co-edited book, published by the Homeless Hub: Exploring Effective Systems Responses to Homelessness, and in 2019, the University of Toronto Press released Nichols' second sole-authored book: Youth, School and Community: Participatory Institutional Ethnographies.