Nikki Stoumen

Researcher

Nikki Stoumen is a non-resident affiliated researcher with NYU PREP. As a researcher she is working on various projects: finishing the dissemination process of her capstone project, analyzing freedom of movement restrictions for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, and exploring the experience of undocumented migrants living in NYC.

She recently graduated with an MS in Global Affairs from NYU SPS, concentrating formally in Human Rights and International Law, and informally, in Peacebuilding. During her time at the CGA, she served as a Graduate Assistant for PREP where she assisted on the “Municipal Leaders Building Peace” participatory action research project with partners RESURPAZ in Colombia and Moomken in Libya. She conducted her capstone in Colombia with RESURPAZ partners on community protection mechanisms for environmental defenders and climate displacement planning. She also worked as a Summer 2021 graduate consultant at Search for Common Ground- KRI Iraq and was an officer for the Human Rights and International Law League, a student ambassador, and a grantee of NYU’s migration network.

Before studying at NYU, she worked as a refugee advocate at Asylum Access Mexico and volunteered with various youth and women’s migrant shelters in Mexico City. Prior, she was a paralegal, court interpreter, and subsequent DOJ-accredited legal representative for unaccompanied children (UAC) migrants from Central America in New Orleans. She also sits on the board of the Ghana Educational Collaborative.

Nikki holds a BA in Latin American Studies and Spanish & Portuguese from Tulane University.

Email: NLS412@NYU.EDU