NIKKI STOUMEN

Researcher, Peace Research and Education Program (PREP)

RESEARCH & FOCUS AREAS: Human rights, migration, and peacebuilding, with a focus on displacement, community protection mechanisms, and participatory research.

CURRENT WORK:

• Finishing the dissemination process of her capstone project.

• Analyzing freedom of movement restrictions for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

• Exploring the experiences of undocumented migrants living in New York City.

BACKGROUND
Nikki Stoumen is a non-resident affiliated researcher with NYU’s Peace Research and Education Program (PREP).

She served as a Graduate Assistant for PREP, assisting on the Municipal Leaders Building Peace participatory action research project with partners RESURPAZ in Colombia and Moomken in Libya. She conducted her capstone research in Colombia with RESURPAZ partners, focusing 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 youth and women’s migrant shelters in Mexico City. Previously, she was a paralegal, court interpreter, and 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.

EDUCATION:
M.S., Global Affairs, New York University — Concentrations in Human Rights and International Law
B.A., Latin American Studies and Spanish & Portuguese, Tulane University