Who is good girl cultural productions?
Born
to two visual artists in Calgary some three decades ago, Nikko Snyder
started her career as a musician, completing a Bachelor of Music degree
in Cello Performance at McGill University in Montreal in 1999.
A generalist at heart, she eventually rebelled against the specialization
of her youth, and in 2001 Nikko launched good
girl magazine, a social justice publication geared towards
young feminists. good girl was the
springboard for Nikko’s graduate work in the Faculty of Environmental
Studies at York University in Toronto, where she concentrated her praxis
on sustainable anti-oppression media.
Out of money and with degrees to spare, Nikko eventually got a real job
with engaged spirituality magazine ascent
in Montreal, where she worked as Circulation Manager and then Publisher
until 2005. Following a self-funded sabbatical to Southeast Asia in 2006,
Nikko return to the prairies, settling in Saskatchewan to become the Publisher
of Regina-based social justice magazine Briarpatch.
Since striking out on her own in 2007, Nikko has written regularly for
publications including ascent, Briarpatch,
Bitch and The
Sasquatch, on topics ranging from feminist pornography
to urban chickens, and from Buddhism to food preservation. She has also
produced several short films, including the movement-based urban parable
Striae, which screened at the 20th Annual St. John’s International
Women’s Film Festival and was nominated for a Golden Sheaf Award
at the 2009 York Film Festival.
In her spare time, Nikko is active in her inner city Regina community,
where she has helped to found the Thomson School Community Garden and
spearhead the revitalization of the Heritage Community Art Park. Her favourite
pastime is growing and preserving as many vegetables as her small yard
will hold.
For more information on Snyder's compellingly broad (if curiously random) professional experience, feel free to peruse her curriculum vitae.
