Nicholas Patrick Quigley (he/they) is a scholarly practitioner in education, composer/producer, and expressive arts facilitator specializing in ecopsychology and creativity in music education. With experience teaching all levels in alternative and traditional public schools, Quigley has transformed the programs he has served by establishing modern bands, accessible general music curricula, and trauma-responsive musicking groups. Quigley teaches music and music technology at B. M. C. Durfee High School of Fall River, Massachusetts, where their project-based curriculum empowers students to write and produce original music stemming from themes of identity and culture. Their dedicated service extends beyond the classroom through their co-organization of the Play On Music Festival. In the summers, Quigley is a music education course facilitator for Boston University.

As an artist, Quigley started writing songs in high school and exploring meditative improvisation early in university. His discography now spans a diverse array of acoustic, electronic, generative, soundscape, ambient, and contemporary alternative musics. Inspired by integrative approaches, Quigley has studied in creative workshops with Brian Eno, Laraaji, Meredith  Monk, and the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer. With a particular interest in composing to develop ecological consciousness, Quigley has earned a certificate in Ecopsychology from the Pacifica Graduate Institute. Their body of work includes themes of climate change and terrapsychology, neurodiversity, contemporary global political issues, and the worlds of dreams.

A member of the academic music honor society Pi Kappa Lambda, Quigley has presented at research- and practice-oriented conferences, and published in the Journal of Popular Music Education, Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning, and Teaching Music, among others. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Lowell (BM, cum laude, Music Business), Boston University (MM, Music Education), and Salve Regina University (CAGS, Professional Applications of the Expressive and Creative Arts). In their praxis, Quigley strives to enact critical and liberatory theories and pedagogies with a disposition of service, joy, care, and community; contextualized within humanity's arc towards sustainability, and reverence for our shared planet.