Location
Princeton, NJ

Bio
Nikki is a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek and USA Today. With her husband's death on 9/11, she became a spokesperson and advocate, serving as the first executive director of Families of September 11 (FOS11). For her role in co-sponsoring a series of university town-hall meetings about communications between Muslim and non-Muslim communities, she and FOS11 shared a Common Ground award in 2005 from the global conflict transformation group Search for Common Ground. Nikki has presented at and participated in a number of international conferences on citizen diplomacy and conflict resolution. She serves on the Advisory Boards of Project Rebirth and American for Informed Democracy and is a communications consultant for the Public Diplomacy Collaborative at Harvard University's Kennedy School.Nikki is the author of the blog 1 Woman's Vu (www.1womansvu.com) on which she regularly posts often humorous commentary about politics, current events, culture, and life issues. In a previous life, she was a composer, performer and producer and president of Ruthenia Music. She released two albums of original songs on which she performed, and has scored for film, books on tape, radio and live theater, including seven interactive murder mysteries, three of them published by Samuel French.