Collaborative on Global Children's Issues

Saba Nia (C‘23) is a pre-med student at Georgetown University majoring in psychology and minoring in creative writing and biology. She currently serves as president of Georgetown's chapter of No Lost Generation, a nationwide student-led organization advocating for refugees, and hopes to address the mental health repercussions of displacement. Nia is interested in migrants' integration strategies and how these affect children and students in particular. She volunteers with migrants and patients, promotes educational equity, researches the psychological uses of expressive writing, studies both environmental and biological sciences, and enjoys learning about different cultures and languages, especially from the Middle East. As a spring 2022 Collaborative on Global Children’s Issues student fellow Nia will work with Dr. Elizabeth Ferris at the institute for the Study of International Migration to research children on the move in the context of climate change and environmental hazards.