Step into Nicki's world, where she's the captain of creativity at Digital Hart Media. Back in 2007, she launched the creative agency keeping her roots in Pueblo. Nicki isn't just a business maven; she's a matchmaker, pairing up with local legends to sprinkle design magic that turns their tales into visual fireworks.Nicki's also Colorado's ultimate cheerleader. She's out there, waving the flag for tourism and economic growth like it's an extreme sport. She and her mighty team of local alumni are launching new ways to maximize technology and data while inviting more people to experience our small-town vibes under big open skies. Spoiler alert the extra traffic you see is a result of her collaborations with Visit Pueblo and Choose Pueblo's marketing efforts reaching more than 1,000,000 people across the United States.She plays with colors, photos, and words all day and turns them into extraordinary stories online and offline. Her background in visual storytelling excels in collaborations with several New York Times best-selling authors and the nation’s top publishing houses Simon & Schuster, Harper Collins and Macmillan. Together we work to bring book pages to life turning static images into beautifully animated visuals and bookmarks and posters into keepsake custom swag.She is behind the redesign of many local community websites including Pueblo County, Visit Pueblo, PEDCO, the Pueblo Chile, the Southern Colorado Community Foundation, Bay’s Meat Market, The Center Toward Self Reliance and many more local businesses and nonprofit organizations. She is helping the next generation of over 30,000 designers in 187 countries through an online education network Design Procademy. This platform directly connects high school and college students, as well as those getting into design, to evolving creative industry resources and real-world techniques. By leveraging the power of web platforms, Design Procademy compliments classroom learning leading to higher success in the workplace.