Biography
Nikkita Oliver (they/them) joined the faculty of Seattle University Law School as an adjunct professor in 2021 teaching a course on the historical and legal underpinnings of abolition and restorative justice. Spring of 2025 they join the faculty as a visiting professor to launch the law school's new "Transforming Public Safety" Clinic. The clinic is a policy and advocacy clinic that will in its semester focus on Washington State's new "use of force" reporting and public accessibility requirements as outlined under RCW 10.118 (signed into law on May 18, 2021).
Nikkita is also 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 carceral institutions. They currently serve as a steering committee member with House Our Neighbors, and are formerly a movement lawyer with the Lavender Rights Project and a Lawyer-in-Residence with the Movement Law Lab.
Publications
- YES! Magazine
- Washington State Bar News
- Crosscut
- The South Seattle Emerald
- The Seattle Weekly
- The Establishment
- The Stranger
