NIQUE

Nique Miller is one of the finest wave dancers on the planet. She’s a trailblazer, a dreamer and a powerful advocate for change. Her smile is absolute sunshine.

Every morning, Nique picks up one of her dreamboat boards and walks down to the ocean in the pale dawn light. The perfect sliders of Queens, Waikiki’s answer to longboard heaven, roll onto the sand at the bottom of her street. She breathes in, listens to the sweet sounds of palm leaves slow-dancing with the breeze, and paddles on out into all that blue.

“The ocean makes me feel free. It’s something I’m very grateful for, because it’s opened up so many doors in my life,” she says. “I have been able to travel around the world, making awesome new