Dr. Nicotera serves as Assistant Professor at Seton Hall University and Director of NYU’s Post- Master’s Certificate Program in Spirituality and Social Work. He has been teaching social work, social justice, peacemaking, and multifaith leadership courses for over 20 years. He has published book chapters and scholarly journal articles on the intersection of spirituality, social justice and social work. He created the Circle of Insight framework, a process to foster the practice of peace, justice, and transformative love. He serves as Interim Co-Executive Director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), the nation’s oldest, largest, multifaith peace organization. He worked with FOR member Thich Nhat Hanh, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Dr. King, to create the award-winning The 5 Powers Revolution film. FOR members Arun Gandhi, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire, invited him to speak at peace-building conferences domestically and internationally. He regularly presents at conferences and provides workshops on social justice, spirituality, and social work. Previously, he served as Chaplain to the College of Law and School for New Learning via DePaul University’s Center for Spirituality and Values in Practice, which he co- founded. He also co-founded, and designed and taught courses in, DePaul’s Peace, Conflict Resolution and Social Justice Studies program. He spent six years as a member of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), a religious order in the Roman Catholic tradition. As a Jesuit, he completed the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, a thirty- day silent retreat, and worked internationally and domestically in prisons, hospice facilities, inner-city parishes and schools, and legal and social service centers. He has been arrested or detained some 20 times for faith-based nonviolent civil resistance. He also lived and worked in Calcutta with Saint Mother Teresa. He received his BA from Georgetown University. He studied law at the Georgetown University School of Law as a Public Interest Law Scholar and completed his Juris Doctor, JD, at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago. He received his Master of Social Work, MSW from Loyola University, Chicago where he also completed graduate studies in Philosophy and Theology. He received his Doctor of Social Work, DSW from Rutgers University, with a concentration in social justice pedagogy and practice