Nicole Matusko graduated cum laude from the honor’s college at Grand Valley State University with a bachelor’s degree in political science in 2005. While at Grand Valley, she was the co-founder and president of the Grand Valley Law Society and was a Michigan Merit Scholar. She went on to graduate with honors from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 2008, where she was awarded the Arthur May Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy. Despite dabbling in many other areas of practice while in law school, Nicole knew her career would be in prosecution. She joined the Ingham County Prosecutor’s Office in 2009 and has had many assignments in the office, including prosecuting child physical and sexual abuse, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, complex drug trafficking, and health care fraud. Currently the liaison to the adult treatment courts in Ingham County, Nicole is also a member of the Ingham County Treatment Court Foundation and serves on the PAAM Drug Initiative Committee. She believes that treatment courts are a valuable aspect of the criminal justice system, because the goal of integrating treatment and recovery through the court system can often be overlooked. Nicole is excited to be a FAN board member and to bring awareness and accessibility to the treatment courts in Ingham County.