Nicki Pombier is an oral historian, writer, and educator. She is Founding Editor of Underwater New York, a platform publishing creative work inspired by the waterways of New York City since 2010, and from 2018-2021 she was an organizing member of Works on Water. Nicki worked as a literary editor for SILENT BEACHES, UNTOLD STORIES: NEW YORK CITY’S FORGOTTEN WATERFRONTS (Damiani, 2016, by Elizabeth Albert with Underwater New York.) She is a part time faculty member at The New School University’s College of Performing Arts and adjunct faculty member in the Oral History Master of Arts program at Columbia University.