Nieema Foster is an aspiring humanitarian aid worker and community development activist. She graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University at Albany and is scheduled to receive her master's degree in Global Development and Social Justice in January of 2018 from St. John's University. Coming from a journalistic background via her undergraduate studies, she developed an interest in development and social justice as a means to take a step further not just serving as a documentarian of issues occurring in society, but to become an agent of social change.