He joined Fort Lewis in 2015, after being a Senior Fellow at the Hamline University Law School, teaching in the School of Education at Hamline University, and teaching in the School of Education at St. Cloud State University. Dr. Nocella is the editor of the Peace Studies Journal, an Executive Director and co-founder of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies, National Co-Coordinator of Save the Kids, Director of the Institute for Hip Hop Activism, editor of Poetry Behind the Walls, and Director of the Academy for Peace Education.