Doctors still don’t know why Nikki Mark’s healthy 12-year-old son Tommy did not wake up one spring morning in 2018. With a 22+ year background building cutting-edge startup companies in Los Angeles, Nikki was suddenly faced with a new venture that she never wanted – restarting herself. Without a religious or spiritual background, she fell back on her entrepreneurial skills, applied them to grief, and built a legacy for her son that has become a symbol of hope for those who have lost and an unconventional model of human transformation for a world so deeply in need of healing.
Publisher’s Weekly lauded Nikki Mark’s memoir Tommy’s Field: Love, Loss, & the Goal of a Lifetime as an “inspirational debut.” It has also been called “a gift to a world in need of healing” by activist and actor Laura Dern. Nikki is Co-Founder and President of the TM23 Foundation, which honors her eldest son’s legacy and has raised more than $3 million to build two state-of-art athletic fields for the City of Los Angeles, each called Tommy’s Field, with a third in progress. More than a hundred thousand children of all circumstances and abilities now play on Tommy’s Fields annually. Nikki has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Oprah Daily, Katie Couric Media, Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper, TODAY, and elsewhere. She has also been featured in People Magazine and on national TV, including The Kelly Clarkson Show. More than 25,000 people are now reached by Nikki’s weekly articles, alternative healing toolkit, and free resources –– which help them heal their hearts from all kinds of loss.
