Nikki is an accomplished movement lawyer multiplier and popular educator dedicated to building our collective capacities to carry out liberatory strategy.  She is a tenacious cross-pollinator, bridging the fields of law, organizing, political theory, and cultural resistance.  Nikki cut her teeth  organizing transnational networks in the Americas to challenge US military, economic and development policies with organized labor, churches, peasant movements and community organizations.  In 2010, she returned to the US to earn a J.D. from Loyola University College of Law.  

Nikki worked with the litigation team that challenged the 2009 U.S.-backed military coup d’etat that ousted President Manuel Zelaya in Honduras and supported Alien Tort Statute litigation to hold US corporations accountable for human rights abuses in Colombia.  Nikki also worked as a collaborating attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights on Doe v. Caldwell, a federal class action lawsuit dreamt up by Women With a Vision that successfully removed almost 900 individuals who had been unconstitutionally forced to register on Louisiana’s sex offender registry.  Nikki helped build out a national institute to train the next generation of movement lawyers at the Bertha Justice Institute at the Center for Constitutional Rights and pioneered a movement lawyering solo practice model that extended strategic legal tools to organizers and social movements without in-house counsel.  She is the former Legal and Policy Director at the Black and immigrant organizing project, the New Orleans’ Workers Center for Racial Justice, and has worked as a capacity coach and strategy consultant. Nikki also loves dancing and is the proud mama of two little freedom fighters.