Biography
Staff member of the Episcopal Church's National Commission on Hispanic Affairs jailed in 1977 alongside Maria Cueto for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury investigating the FALN. Her imprisonment became a major civil-liberties cause within the Episcopal Church and the Puerto Rican independence movement. Documented in PFOC Breakthrough magazine.
The early-1980s movement history reprinted in Que Ondee Sola, March 2010, identifies Nemikin as Venezuelan and names her with Myrna Salgado and María Cueto among women imprisoned for over ten months for refusing to cooperate with federal grand juries. This is an attributed historical duration account, not an exact individual endpoint or new jail episode. PDF page 12. Source: https://queondeesola.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/QOS-March-10.pdf#page=12
The interview introduction recalls actual grand-jury confinement beginning in March 1977 and ending in January 1978, described as ten months. This corroborates the existing detention; month references are not fabricated day-level endpoints. Source: The Witness, April 1978, PDF page 18. https://digitalarchives.episcopalarchives.org/the_witness/pdf/1978_Watermarked/Witness_19780401.pdf#page=18
The grand-jury article reports actual jailing the previous week for refusal to testify in the FALN inquiry and notes the women said they had already answered FBI questions in November. The newspaper calls their refusal principled and demands dismissal. Its up-to-fourteen-month forecast is not actual service and does not replace independently documented statutory limits. The printed parenthesis reverses executive-director/secretary roles relative to other records; those roles are not silently changed. An individually captioned photograph identifies both women.
