Nikole Lim is a speaker, educator, and author of the book, Liberation is Here. Nikole shifts paradigms on how stories are told by platforming voices of the oppressed–sharing stories of beauty arising out of seemingly broken situations. Her heart beats for young women whose voices are silenced by oppression and she desires to see every person realize the transformative power of their own story. As the founder and international director of Freely in Hope, Nikole has been deeply transformed by the powerful, tenacious, and awe-inspiring examples of survivors. Their audacious dreams have informed her philosophy for a survivor-led approach to community transformation. Nikole graduated with a bachelor’s degree in film production from Loyola Marymount University and a master’s in global leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary. She is a student in embodied contemplative psychotherapy through the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science. She is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area and can often be found buying African fabric on the streets of Nairobi.