Nikita will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on March 17, 2012, at Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue.
Nikita is the daughter of Jennifer and Richard Marcou of Mercer Island and the sister of Nadia and Damon. Her grandparents are Joyce and Joseph Marcou of Lake Worth, Fla., John Hudson and Anita Colombo of Oak Harbor, and Susan and Paul Singer of Santa Barbara, Calif.
Nikita is a 7th-grader at Islander Middle School. She enjoys acting in plays and musicals, and for her mitzvah project she is raising money through bake sales benefiting UNICEF to fight hunger in Africa.