Niq is an Award Winning Editor, visual storyteller, and 80's baby. A native New Yorker, her family moved from Brownsville, Brooklyn to Central Harlem in the early 90's, and it was at the Schomburg library, reading poetry by Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou, that she began to understand the power that came with telling our own stories, unapologetically, as Black people. Growing up, her father worked as a Production Assistant on music video shoots and would sometimes bring her along - this was her first introduction to production and life on set, which she soaked up like a sponge.
Niq attended Long Island University and the Art Institute of NYC to study filmmaking and production. She got her first break as a reality tv Casting Producer for networks like FoxTV, Food Network, UPN, and NBC. She transitioned into post production, working as an Editor at Vice Media, garnering awards and nominations from Promax, the Clios, and the Shorty awards. Her work for Vice has also received write-ups and reviews in Variety, Ad-Age, Rolling Stones and Vogue, to name a few.
Niq is currently working as a freelance Editor to create short and long form visuals that are grounded in and celebrate the complexities of Blackness - the joys and the pain. In Our Mothers' Garden, her first feature documentary, and a love letter to black women, was recently acquired by Array and is now streaming on Netflix.