Nikita Huggins
Nikita Huggins is a multidisciplinary creative who makes things with social impact and for self-exploration. Her recent studio focus has been on Caribbean cultural preservation and food as healing. Nikita’s work addresses the absence of Caribbean representation in mainstream conversations, technology, and innovation by creating tools that allow the region to make use of the creative applications of technology. In more self-explorative inquiry, she is researching food’s connection with dis-ease and its ability to ease distress and bring about holistic healing. Project Trini Talk is a tool that encourages cultural exploration through language. Trini Talk focuses on teaching the etymology of Trinidad English Creole through the island’s history. It applies emerging technology to preserve and articulate the etymology of the dialect and its historical context within Trinidad [and Tobago]. Nikita received her master’s degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University, where she also served as a Resident Researcher and Something in Residence (SIR). Her professional experiences traverse research, creative production, experience design, creative technology, machine learning, education, grant writing, and management.