Nikkita Oliver is a Seattle-based creative, teaching artist, writer, and organizer. She holds a Masters of Education and Juris Doctorate from the University of Washington.

Nikkita is a writer-in-residence with Writers in the Schools at Washington Middle School and a teaching artist and case manager with Creative Justice--an community based arts alternative to incarceration.

Nikkita is the 2015 recipient of the Seattle Office of Civil Rights Artist Human Rights Leader Award, the 2014 Seattle Poetry Slam (SPS) Grand Slam Champion, the 2013, 2014 and 2016 Seattle Poetry Slam Women of the World Poetry Slam representative, a three-time Seattle Poetry Slam national team member and coached the Seattle Poetry Slam national slam team twice. She has opened for Cornel West and Chuck D of Public Enemy and performed on The Late Night Show with Stephen Colbert.

(Photo Credit: Sara Dilley)