SuperShero: Nika Seidman

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Nika Seidman inducted into the Love Superhero Hall of Gratitude in November 2013 for being the one who stepped in and filled both the obvious voids and the unknown. I admire Nika for her working mom mojo, dedication to hard science, and willingness to go beyond her comfort zone (radio show!) I love Nika the most because while she has a public health part of her mind and has grown this amazing ability to see how guidelines or policy might broadly apply, in the end she is always about that one woman, the patient. Nika has a way of being able to dial across the miles or the web or the social situation and apply best practices to a real live woman and communicate what an intervention or lack of intervention might mean to her.

About the Love Superhero Hall of Gratitude!

“The plain fact is that the world does not need more successful people, but it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane.” David Orr

I deeply admire those who "live well in their places." The ordinary and the unsung who offer to the world the very best parts of themselves without expectation. This is a beautiful expression of love in her calm, persistent, generous manner - offering a ripple of change (a metamorphosis) to the world. Inductees to the Love Superhero Hall of Gratitude are caped in recognition of their contributions to a love-filled world.