Nicole Dolan

Flatland in Focus Contributor

Nicole Dolan is a proud Indonesian Kansas Citian who was raised on celebrating diversity, music and the arts — which are all at the core of who she is (just no Sugarland, please). Nicole is the marketing coordinator for the Kansas City Ballet and her work is featured in FlatlandKC, the Kansas City Business Journal, 90.9 The Bridge, KCUR and KC Studio Magazine. If she's not writing or helping out at a show, you can find her downing her second espresso over ice or cooking for her family and friends.

Stories by Nicole Dolan

John Garland Park in Kansas City, Kansas, overlooks an industrial park.

Environmental Justice: Wyandotte County Seeks Solutions 

Advocates in Wyandotte County are seeking environmental justice for communities paying the health care price for decades of industrial pollution.

A view of the downtown skyline from inside the proposed Kansas City Royals ballpark.

Pondering Costs and Benefits of Royals and Chiefs Stadiums

The Chiefs and Royals want to use a Jackson County sales tax to upgrade Arrowhead Stadium and a build a new ballpark. Voters are weighing costs and benefits.

A view of work on a streetcar extension looking south from about 43rd and Main streets.

Midtown Kansas City Reconnects with Streetcar Roots   

The KC Streetcar extension promises to change Midtown Kansas City. While advocates cheer new housing and businesses, others fret about being priced out.

Students hold up a poster with a star in the middle and notes written all around it.

Help With Navigating a Complex Media Landscape

As the U.S. enters another election year awash with information, how can folks improve their media literacy to help decide what is true and who to follow?

"Our goal as a coffee shop and our goal as Asian Americans is to have unity with Asian people here and people of other colors to unify everybody," said Cafe manager Madoka Koguchi. (Nicole Dolan | Flatland)

Kansas City’s Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander Community Makes Itself Heard

Kansas City's vigil at Cafe Cà Phê to grieve the victims of the Atlanta shooting sought to create the intimacy and the reverence of an at-home vigil in a space large enough to fit the whole Asian American-Pacific Islander community.