Nicole Oke

I am a mother, wife, author, and member of the wildland firefighting community. I am based in Boise, Idaho where I work at the National Interagency Fire Center and I spend my spare time helping to build tomorrows leaders through programs like the Girl Scouts. After searching for a children’s book that would help my daughter understand the different elements of emotional intelligence and finding few options, I was inspired to become an emotional intelligence champion for children and decided to write Penny Panda and the Gift of Possibility. My main goal is to help children understand their emotions and build the skills needed to regulate and process those hard emotions. My second goal is to create a way for parents and caregivers to be able to share these skills with the children in their lives, in order to raise a generation of emotionally intelligent, compassionate, strong, and resilient human beings!