Nia is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Politics specializing in American Politics. She completed her undergraduate degree in Political Science at Columbia University where she graduated with honors for her senior thesis entitled, “Black Twitter, Black Voters, and Black Issues: The Role of Black Twitter Discourse in the 2020 Democratic Primary.”

After earning her bachelor’s, Nia worked at a workforce development nonprofit in New York City and as well as a social policy research company in Washington D.C. She has published literature in various topic areas including child welfare, sexual and reproductive health, infant-early childhood mental health, and racial and ethnic politics.