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Nadia is a Doctoral student in the Religious Department at The University of Texas at Austin. Nadia earned their Master of Theological Studies student at Harvard Divinity School in the African and African American Religious Studies Area of Focus. At HDS, they continued their work on Spiritual Reparations in Regla de Ocha-Ifá and other Black Caribbean Diasporic traditions, and continued research on Black Cuban Womxn Akpwón/Apwanlás. Nadia spent over three years in Cuba and México pursuing fieldwork and dance study for both research projects that take form as Auto-Ethnographies and dance choreographies expanding Reparation politics, coining Spiritual Reparations and politics of being an Akpwón/Akpwanlá in Cuba and its diaspora. Nadia is a Company Dancer and the Cultural Strategist with Jean Appolon Expressions, a Haitian Contemporary dance company. Nadia has received training from and performed in dance works by Cristal Brown, Frederick Earl Mosley, Vincent Hardy, Princess Mhoon, Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, Bebe Miller, Bárbara Balbuena, Yeniselt Galata Calvo, Eva Despaigne-Trujillo and Obini Batá, Camille A. Brown and Emilio Hernández González of the company Raíces Profundas to name a few. Nadia’s dance choreography has been presented at Boston University, Hampshire College, la Fundación de Alejo Carpentier Havana, Cuba, and Cambridge Carnival Festival 2020. Nadia served as a Research Associate at The Pluralism Project, where they contributed their research experiences in Afro-Caribbean spiritual-religious traditions. Nadia continues to work through the lens of Traditions and Religions of Afrikan origin, Survival, Blackness, and the Black Caribbean Diaspora within dance and written works. Nadia recognizes that dance is an embodied tool of ritual and resistance in their research and training. Through dance and ethnographic research, Nadia has been able to navigate and communicate Blackness, queerness, and the sacred.