Nia was a member of the lab during her sophomore year at Harvard College. She worked with Tamsin Jones on the expression of neuroblast genes during cricket embryogenesis. Her research in the spring semester of 2014 was funded by the Harvard College Research Program. Nia completed her degree in OEB with a secondary field in English in 2016. Nia is current a 4th year Biology PhD candidate, studying coral thermal resistance and recovery at Stanford in the Palumbi lab.