Nikki Silva is one half of The Kitchen Sisters with long-time friend and producing partner Davia Nelson. They are the creators of hundreds of stories for NPR and public media including the duPont-Columbia and James Beard Award winning series Hidden Kitchens, the Peabody Award winning Lost & Found Sound and The Sonic Memorial Project with Jay Allison, The Hidden World of Girls, and the Webby Award winning podcast The Kitchen Sisters Present. Their current NPR and podcast series is The Keepers, stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, historians, collectors— guardians of history, large and small, protectors of the free flow of information and ideas. Nikki is also a museum curator and exhibit consultant. She lives with her family on a commune in Santa Cruz, California.