Nikkita Oliver is a Seattle-based creative, teaching artist, attorney, and organizer. Her writing has appeared in the South Seattle Emerald, Crosscut, the Establishment, and the Stranger. Oliver holds a J.D. and Masters of Education from the University of Washington. She is also the case manager for Creative Justice, an arts-based alternative to incarceration, and has worked for arts organizations such as Writers in the Schools and Arts Corp.

Nikkita is the recipient of of many awards, including the 2017 City Arts Artists of the Year, Gender Justice Power Award (2017), Seattle King County NAACP Leadership Award (2017), and the 2014 Seattle Poetry Slam Grand Champion. She has opened for Cornel West and Chuck D of Public Enemy. She is also the first political candidate of the Seattle Peoples Party, running for Mayor of Seattle in 2017 where she finished 3rd of 21 candidates.

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