Nicole Cone is a filmmaker based in the Greater New York area. She was born and raised in Miami, FL, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a scholarship from the Posse Foundation. She was on the Posse New York Advisory Board from 2019-2023. She is a recent MFA graduate from the Graduate Film Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. While at NYU, Nicole was the recipient of the WTC Johnson Scholarship, and a fellow in the 2024 Feature Film Development Studio Fellowship at the NYU Production Lab.

 Nicole works in documentary television, digital media, and podcasts as a freelance producer, with credits including the Emmy-nominated Netflix series Simone Biles Rising. In a previous life, Nicole created documentaries at VICE and social content at Cheddar. She began her career in media as an NBC Page in the NBCUniversal East Coast Page Program. Her first film, Four Women, was an official selection in the Short Films, Big Stories showcase with the Woodstock Film Festival and the inaugural Social Justice Now Film Festival, created by the founders of the American Black Film Festival. Her next short film, Alexandra McGee, premiered at the 2023 Florida Film Festival and screened at the Black Toronto Film Festival, Garden State Film Festival and the Renaissance Black Film Festival.