NIKKI KAZIMOVA is a Baku-born cross-cultural trainer and freelance writer. An honors graduate from the Azerbaijan University of Culture and Arts, she has an MA in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Over the last ten years, Nikki has been dividing her time between Azerbaijan and the USA, where she studied and worked in journalism and for media development organizations, including CNN International and the International Center for Journalists in Washington. She has worked for ExxonMobil in Azerbaijan, was a regional correspondent for Bloomberg News and the International Journalists Network, and was consultant to nonprofit organizations in Baku and Washington. She also managed the communication campaign of the Council of Europe’s “All Different All Equal” program in Strasbourg. She was an adjunct lecturer at Khazar University in Baku, and has conducted training courses for young journalists.