Niki López

Creator and Co-Executive Producer, Santiago of the Seas | USA

Niki López is a Puerto Rican storyteller and artist working in the animation industry. She is the creator and executive producer of Nick JR’s hit preschool series, Santiago of the Seas.

López was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She attended Ringling College of Art & Design to earn a BFA in Illustration. Her animation career began as a “Nicktern” for Nickelodeon Animation Studios, where she got hired shortly after as a production assistant on Kung-Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness and then as color designer on The Fairly Odd Parents, Harvey Beaks, and Glitch Techs.

In 2018, López was selected as one of Variety’s 10 Animators to Watch and is featured in Animation Magazine’s Rising Stars of Animation for their April 2020 issue.

In her free time, she enjoys dabbling in aromatherapy and drinking tea while sharing ghost stories to anyone willing to humor her.