Niki Selken
Domain Lead Tech Culture & Strategy
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNiki Selken is a multidisciplinary technologist, new media artist, and designer with over a decade of experience shaping tech culture, immersive experiences, and creative education. As Domain Lead for Tech Culture & Strategy at Intuit, she orchestrates large-scale engineering events and storytelling initiatives that align thousands of technologists with company mission and employer brand. A founder and longtime leader in the arts-tech ecosystem—currently chair of Gray Area and founder of the Emoji Foundation—she helps artists adopt emergent tech like blockchain and NFTs to monetize and scale their practice. Her background spans game design, wearables, theater, and physical computing, with client work for Apple, Google, and Intuit and teaching stints at Parsons and University of San Francisco. Known globally as an emoji expert and creator of projects like the Emoji Dictionary and EmojiFlower VR, she blends cultural scholarship with hands-on technical craft. A Latina from a lineage of Mexican artists, she brings a rare combination of institutional leadership, community advocacy, and experimental maker sensibility.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Design and Technology, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design - The New SchoolUniversity of California Santa CruzMA and MFA, Experimental and Activist Performance, MA and MFA, Experimental and Activist Performance at New College of California
English, SpanishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
agwarin/emoji-dictionary
Mar 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:23 commits in 1 month
agwarin/TheOrganicMecanique
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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