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Nikki Johnson-Huston, Esq. is an tax attorney in Philadelphia with her own firm, The Law Office of Nikki Johnson-Huston and spent 6 ½ years as an Assistant City Solicitor in the Major Tax Unit for the City of Philadelphia Law Department. A 2004 graduate of Temple University Beasley School of Law, she earned a J.D./M.B.A/ LL.M in Taxation in four years. Nikki is a frequent speaker on how she overcame a life of poverty and homelessness to become an award winning young attorney. She is the former Co-Chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association Women in the Profession Committee, a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association Board of Governors, and former Co-Chair of the Women in the Profession Public Service Task Force of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Nikki used that position to start a mentoring program for high-school students interested in pursuing a career in law, conducted numerous panels about issues related to educational opportunities and the law and even co-moderated a fireside chat with Bill Cosby in November 2008. In addition, she has won several awards including the Craig M. Perry Community Service Award given by the Philadelphia Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, been named a 2009 “Lawyer on the Fast Track” by the Legal Intelligencer, one of the “10 People under 40 to Watch in 2010” by The Philadelphia Tribune, a 2010 Philadelphia Business Journal Woman of Distinction, 2011 Next Generation of Leadership: Rising Star, 2nd Annual Fashioning Futures for Women Honoree by the Career Wardrobe, one of the 2012 Nation’s Best Advocates: 40 Lawyers Under 40 by The National Bar Association and a 2012 USA Eisenhower Fellow, where she traveled to India and New Zealand in September 2012 to work with women and children who were living in poverty. Nikki was recently appointed the Diversity Chair to the Philadelphia Bar Association and named a 2013 Pennsylvania Diverse Attorney of the Year by the Legal Intelligencer.
During our conversation, Ms. Johnson-Huston talks about:
– Being homeless at the age of nine due to her mother’s drug and alcohol abuse and was sent to live with her grandmother which was a blessing
– Receiving a scholarship to St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia where she dropped out after her first year but went back and graduated four years later with her Bachelor’s Degree and then went to Temple University to get her law degree
– How her brother’s death three years ago heightened her concern for the disadvantaged
– Some great stories about her grandmother and what legacy did her grandmother leave in her
– Why she wrote “What the Trayvon Martin Case Means for Middle Class Blacks”
– Her first response to the Zimmerman verdict
– Her thoughts on race relations in America today
– How she wishes that many of her White friends would try to understand the issue of racism
– How she handles living in “two worlds”
– The reaction to the Zimmerman verdict from the middle class Blacks that she has spoken to
– What has her husband’s reaction to verdict
– Her thoughts on the Zimmerman case and how she feels that race played a part in the incident and verdict
– What are her concerns for Black men in America
– Her words and empowerment for Black men and the Black community
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