Instructors

Niki Selken 👩🏻‍💻 (she/her) is an artist, technologist and educator. Niki spent over a decade working across game design, physical computing, experimental theatre, interaction design and education. As a designer and technologist, Niki focused on working with nonprofits and small businesses in the inclusion and social impact space (Ms. Foundation, Girls Write Now, LYRIC, Hesperian Health Guides) and as an educator, she taught a range of creative coding courses in both New York and San Francisco. A graduate of Parsons School of Design, Niki has taught at her alma mater, at St. Joseph's College in Brooklyn, at the University of San Francisco, at the Bay Area Video Collective and at Gray Area—where she is the Creative Development Director and manages the artist incubator and creative code education programs. Niki's work has been featured by Yahoo Tech, Buzzfeed, Make Magazine and Adafruit, among others. Niki identifies as Latina and hails from a long line of Mexican artists and craftsmen.

Sarah Vickers-Webb is a digital marketing strategist based in Santa Cruz, California, with a background in law and cultural criticism. Sarah uses their expertise in SEO, writing marketing copy, and eye for trends to create online and social media content and campaigns to create brand awareness, drive traffic to clients’ websites and improve search engine rankings. They produces, edits, and writes content for Santa Cruz Tech Beat, and is also the content manager and lead writer for Emoji Foundation. Past clients include 1440 Multiversity, Wildflower Financial, and MadJacks Snowsports.