Nikkita Oliver and Faisal Provincial share the power of perspective
Learn how Creative Justice is changing the lives of youth impacted by incarceration through the healing power of art, while offering services and opportunities that help them succeed in work and in life.
About the speaker
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.
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"What is beautiful about creativity and perspective, is we've done the wrong thing for a lot of years. We have the opportunity to do the right thing--and creativity allows us to manifest that."
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