Jade Nixon (she/her) is a Caribbean Black feminist scholar. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Collaborative Indigenous Research with Communities and Lands and serves as Assistant Director of the Visiting Lab at NYU. She earned her PhD from the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Her research examines relationships between place, water, race, and girlhood. In her postdoctoral work, she leads a Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) project with Black and Indigenous girls to learn more about their relationships with urban waterways and with one another in New York City. This project is grounded in Indigenous land and water education.
