Nikki Hardin,
member

"Women acting together could change the world...stop wars, elect a woman president, end violence again the helpless, share the wealth.

We may not have a woman president yet, but Women Making a Difference is showing us
how to share the wealth and make an impact in our own backyard."

In 1985, Nikki moved to Charleston, which she had never seen and barely heard of before. She spent the next several years nursing a midlife crisis while she eked out a living by cleaning houses, working in a bed and breakfast, clerking in a liquor store that had a psychotic parrot and no heat or air conditioning, and writing descriptions of mythical Irish pubs and taverns for a local mail-order company. She started skirt! magazine in 1994 with not much more than $400 and the desire to have something interesting to read.

Today, skirt! is found in Atlanta, GA; Augusta, GA; Charleston, S.C.; Charlotte, N.C.; Columbia, S.C.; Jacksonville, FL; and Savannah, GA.