Nikky E

Nicole ‘Nikky E’ Ermineskin is a nêhiyawak mother, interdisciplinary digital media artist, mentor, youth worker, recording / performing artist, and grassroots community organizer.Over the last 17 years she has explored and experimented with many facets of the music industry. Nikky has a diploma in audio engineering and production, which lead to stage managing, hosting radio, organizing events, videography, frontline Indigenous resistance media/ journalism and following her childhood dream of becoming a professional recording and performing artist. Displaced from her traditional homelands, Nikky grew up in East Van where she fought hard to walk this path despite all the challenges and systematic oppression placed upon her. Nikky hopes to inspire other young Indigenous youth to follow their dreams no matter their life circumstances and share their stories with the world, all while staying grounded and connected to Indigenous culture, language and ceremony.