Nia Nelson

Nia (they/she) is the Administrative Coordinator at the Institute for Development of Human Arts. She received her BA in Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also a long-time organizer and community educator, having organized and facilitated in various cross-movement spaces, most notably at the intersections of Black and Queer liberation, mental health, Black spirituality and interfaith liberation theology. As a trauma survivor and person of Black and Filipino lineage, her lived experiences inform her commitment to building upon ancestral legacies of spiritual healing and colonial resistance. As a music curator, producer and herbalist, she also tenderly holds the healing, storytelling, and connective powers of music and the land and incorporate them into their personal and community praxes.