Jade Nixon (she/her) is a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Collaborative Indigenous Research with Community and Lands, and the Assistant Director of the Visiting Lab at New York University. She earned her Ph.D. at the Women & Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto, Canada.  

Her research examines relationships between place, water, race, and girlhood. Prior to joining NYU, Jade was the inaugural Black and Indigenous Waterways Research Fellow at the University of Toronto. Her doctoral research thought with Black Caribbean women about their theories of gathering with the Atlantic Ocean and their friends on the Ubersoca Cruise ship.

In her postdoctoral work, Jade 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.