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Your website: http://www.1womansvu.com
State: NJ
Bio: Nikki Stern is a communications consultant and writer whose essays have appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek and USA Today. After her husband was killed on 9/11, she left her public relations position to serve as executive director of Families of September 11, a national organization for families affected by the terrorist attacks. The recipient of a 2005 (Search For) Common Ground award, she has participated in forums dealing with conflict resolution here and abroad. Additionally, Nikki spent a number of years as a professional musician in New York, a time she remembers fondly
What's your favorite public radio show?: All Things Considered and, somewhat locally, Marty Moss-Coane, who is insightful, well-researched and takes her work seriously but not herself.
What's your secret talent?: I have a very decent singing voice
What song is stuck in your head right now, you know, a music wedgie?: the stupid theme from "Dancing with the Stars" (sad, isn't it?)
What sound is most characteristic of where you live?: birds...well, and some traffic from Route 1 if the wind blows the wrong way
What's your favorite sound memory?: wow - a tossup between the blue jay that lived outside my bedroom when I was a kid and the sound of waves crashing against the shore
Which station do you listen to most?: WHYY and WNYC (Princeton is right in the middle)