Nyjia is a Washington D.C. native and attended Duke Ellington School of the Arts with a major in Literary Media. She attended college at the University of the Arts with a major in documentary film and a minor in digital journalism. Nyjia has worked with filmmaker Marc Levin and the National Black Programming Consortium. She has previously worked on the PBS documentary THROUGH A LENS DARKLY, the Emmy-nominated BRICK CITY and the Emmy-winning FREEDOM RIDERS. She became a Corporation for Public Broadcast diversity fellow and a digital media producer with CAAM , the Center for Asian American Media. With CAAM Nyjia created original content and helped program their international film festival. She’s worked in development with MTV and has been an associate and segment producer with numerous production companies. Nyjia’s first documentary JUST US examines the epidemic of generational imprisonment and has screened across the country and received a certificate of honor from the Board of Supervisors from the city and county of San Francisco. In 2014 Nyjia was listed in the SOURCE Magazine as one of 25 women to watch. Her second documentary LISTEN TO MY HEARTBEAT, looks at the gentrification of Washington, D.C. through the gaze of the city’s folkloric music. LISTEN TO MY HEARTBEAT, has been awarded development support through ITVS’s Diversity Development Fund and is amid production. 

Nyjia is a 2017 BAVC MediaMaker Fellow and she has been accepted in Sundance and Women in Film’s Financing and Strategy Intensive for Independent Women Filmmakers. She lives in LA.