Nicole Belolan is a guest editor for Contingent and a Consulting Public Historian and Independent Scholar based in the Philadelphia area. She consults on public history projects ranging from disability history and access and inclusion for disabled people to collections management for small museums and editing. She has been on the Board of the Disability History Association since 2019. Nicole earned a PhD in History at the University of Delaware in 2017, and her research focuses on the material culture of disability. You can learn more about her consulting work at https://nicolebelolanconsultingllc.com/ and her scholarship at http://nicolebelolan.org/.