Shannon Nickinson

Originally from Pennsylvania, Shannon is a wife, mother, and storyteller. She told stories for 25 years in daily journalism comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. She spent eight years in the nonprofit world with Studer Community Institute in Pensacola before joining the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition as communications director in January 2022.

Shannon is a proud wife of an amazing husband, proud mother of incredible daughters, proud human to the goodest boy who adopted us from the Humane Society, and a pretty fair cook. She’s also a soccer mom — and has the car and the T-shirt to prove it.