4/4/24

Nikkita Oliver gives an update on Creative Justice and their Creative Cafe

Meet Nikkita Oliver (they/them) is a creative, community organizer, abolitionist, educator, and attorney. Working at the intersections of arts, law, education, and community organizing Nikkita strives to create experiences which draw us closer to our humanity and invites us to imagine what we hope to see in the future. (Nikkita identifies as Black, multi-racial, queer, and non-binary.)

Nikkita is the executive director of Creative Justice, an arts-based healing engaged space for youth and young adults impacted by the school-to-prison pipeline and other harmful systems and institutions. They are also an adjunct professor in the Seattle University School of Law,and a community advisor for House Our Neighbors, an organization working on social housing in Seattle.

Nikkita has opened for Cornel West and Chuck D of Public Enemy, featured on the Breakfast Club, KUOW's The Week in Review, Cut Stories, and performed on The Late Night Show with Stephen Colbert. Nikkita's writing has been published in the South Seattle Emerald, Yes! Magazine, Crosscut, the Establishment, Last Real Indians, The Seattle Weekly, and The Stranger. Nikkita organizes with No New Youth Jail, Decriminalize Seattle, Covid-19 Mutual Aid - Seattle, and the Seattle Peoples Party.

Nikkita stopped by The Day With Trae with TraeAnna Holiday to discuss Creative Justice and their new Creative Cafe Coffee Shop located inside Washington Hall in Seattle's #CentralDistrict

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