Add Nikhita's bio for 2018 Steering Committee Election

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@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ Name | Organization/Company | GitHub
 [Quinton Hoole](quintonhoole.md) | Huawei | [@quinton-hoole](https://github.com/quinton-hoole) |
 | [Stephen Augustus](stephenaugustus.md) | Red Hat | [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus) |
 [Tim Pepper](timpepper.md) | VMware | [@tpepper](https://github.com/tpepper) |
+[Nikhita Raghunath](nikhitaraghunath.md) | Independent | [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita) |
 
 [Kubernetes Steering Committee]: https://github.com/kubernetes/steering
 [Steering Committee Charter]: https://github.com/kubernetes/steering/blob/master/charter.md
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+# Nikhita Raghunath
+
+- GitHub: [nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita)
+- Twitter: [TheNikhita](https://twitter.com/TheNikhita)
+- Employment: Independent
+
+## Why Me
+
+I have already been helping the Steering Committee with tasks like
+[License Auditing and Remediation](https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/issues/223)
+and Ensuring that all Kubernetes repositories have
+[proper contributing guides](https://github.com/kubernetes/steering/issues/28#issuecomment-416821430).
+
+Being a Steering Committee member sometimes involves doing the "unexciting and
+boring" parts of maintaining a project. I have never shied away from such
+tasks and have been regularly contributing with lots of "unglamorous" work.
+
+If given a chance, I would love to do more chopping wood and carrying water
+for the project! :)
+
+## What I do
+
+- I started contributing as a
+[Google Summer of Code intern](https://github.com/nikhita/gsoc-meta-k8s).
+I had a wonderful experience and wanted to give back - now, I help run the
+[Google Summer of Code](https://github.com/cncf/soc) and [Outreachy](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/0ec68604d00fe99b4be6519800a806df15d55674/sig-cli/outreachy.md)
+internship programs for Kubernetes!
+
+- I mainly work with SIG API Machinery and focus on the extensibility of the
+Kubernetes API through CRDs. I have written [design](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/pull/708/)
+[proposals](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/pull/913)
+and authored several features regarding them.
+Apart from this, I work on the release process for client-go.
+
+- I also work with SIG CLI, SIG Contributor Experience and
+sometimes with SIG Release.
+
+- I can be seen [tinkering with prow plugins](https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+author%3Anikhita)
+and triaging issues to help improve the contributor experience.
+
+- I also love adding emojis in Slack and GitHub reviews so that it remains a
+friendly environment for everyone! :rainbow:
+
+
+## What I will do
+
+- Nurture an inclusive, diverse, and open community
+- Create developer guides to facilitate knowledge transfer from core contributors
+- Improve reviewer and approver scalability
+- Make the contributing process easier for new-comers
+- Create codified processes for license auditing
+- Find homes for unowned areas in the project
+- Drive [SIG charters](https://github.com/kubernetes/steering/issues/31) to completion