Nicki Gorny is the features editor at The Blade. She’s been at the daily newspaper since 2017, and previously covered features and religion as a staff writer.

Nicki holds a bachelor’s degree in newspaper and online journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where she double-majored in Spanish language, literature, and culture.

She started her career as an intern and copy editor for the New York Times News Service in Gainesville, Fla., before transitioning to cover crime and criminal justice for daily newspapers in Ocala, Fla., and Sandusky, Ohio.