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Nicki Pombier is deeply involved in nurturing a community of artists who create work on, in, and with water, as Founding Editor of Underwater New York and organizing member of Works on Water.

She is passionate about teaching, and in addition to her work with undergraduates at CoPA, in the Drama and the CoPA Core programs, she teaches in the Oral History Master of Arts Program at Columbia University. In all that she does, she works oral historically—deeply invested in co-creation, grounded in listening, with a rigorous ethic around stewarding stories into the world, in the labor of belief that doing this work might create better conditions for justice, repair, restoration, and restitution. She lives on Munsee Lenape and Canarsie land, in present-day Brooklyn, overlooking an expressway built in the 1950s displacing more than 1200 families.