QUEST Staff

Nicole M. Coomber
Program Manager, QUEST Honors Fellows Program

3570G Van Munching Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Phone: 301-405-8732
E-mail: nmcottrell@rhsmith.umd.edu

Nicole Coomber currently serves as program manager for the University of Maryland QUEST program. She establishes and maintains professional relationships for the program, manages donations, and is involved with curriculum development and execution. This year she is also heading up the recruiting and selections process for the new cohort of QUEST students.

Previously, Nicole worked as policy analyst intern at the Joint National Committee on Languages and as a French teacher and administrator at independent schools in New York and Washington, DC. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of the South in 2001 with a B.A. in English and French, she earned an M.A. in French Studies from Middlebury College while living in Paris. Currently, she is in her third year of the Education Policy Studies Ph.D. program here at Maryland.

Nicole’s research includes studying policy impacting higher education and foreign language education. She is currently working on her dissertation, an oral history project that explains the relationship between federal foreign and second language education policies and the establishment of foreign language programs at the higher education level.