IS A TRAVELER, A RESEARCHER, A SCORPIO, A COMEDIAN WHEN she WANTs TO BE, AND ABOVE ALL A VISIONARY. she is A PASSIONATE CREATIVE AND HAs ALWAYS SEEN herSELF AS A VESSEL FOR STORIES. she DEDICATEs her TIME TO EXPLORING HOW she CAN CAPTURE HUMAN LIFE IN GENUINE AND INNOVATIVE WAYS. you CAN USUALLY FIND her IN A PARK OR SOMEWHERE PUBLIC DRAWING INSPIRATION FROM THE WORLD AROUND her.

AS A FILMMAKER she’s ENAMORED BY THE CREATIVE PROCESS FROM CONCEPTION TO FRUITION. PRODUCTION IN ITSELF IS A FORM OF CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING AND COMMUNITY BUILDING. she LOVEs BEING PART OF A TEAM AND POURING ENERGY INTO SOMETHING everyone CAN BE PROUD OF. EVERYTHING she MAKEs IS BOTH A RESPONSE AND SOMETHING TO RESPOND TO, CONTINUING THE TIMELESS CONVERSATION THAT FILMS ARE. she TREASUREs STORIES OF BLACK LIVELIHOOD, ESPECIALLY ONES CENTERING BLACK WOMEN. WRITING AND FILM ARE her FOCUS BUT CREATIVE EXPRESSION BLEEDS NATURALLY INTO ALL ASPECTS OF her EXISTENCE.

nya graduated from Brooklyn College with a BFA concentrating in screenwriting and minoring in African American studies. She got her start writing for the “Unproductive” web series and filming “the initiative” web series in college. she INTERNED AT MCGEE MEDIA FOR THE PBS SERIES “FINDING YOUR ROoTS”. She eventually BEGAN Writing, directing, and producing for comedy sketch series “Appropriate Ignorance”.

She was a freelance junior producer at Mother ad agency before going on tour with UK jungle artist nia archives. She recently directed her first music video. She’s currently in post-production for her documentary growing panes, and her queens centered short film, Last Stop. In her spare time when she's not reading Lucille Clifton poems or studying Zeinabu irene Davis films, she's most likely refining her feature film concept/script (for fun!).