Niyah has served as a multi-state digital advocacy and communications strategist, decarceration policy analyst, and public policy researcher with a passion for intentionally centering historically excluded people into the policymaking process. Her work aims to leverage grassroots partnerships, participatory action research, and community-backed solutions to develop social impact tools, system solutions, and advocacy campaigns.To date, she has led and supported legislative advocacy initiatives, policy campaigns, and research development in Mississippi, New York, Oklahoma, Virginia, and California while leading internal project and product management processes for internal teams, consultants, and coalition partners across varying time zones. These campaigns include but are not limited to modernizing the California Food Retail Code to include street vendors in the formal food economy, organizing state legislators to pass expanded parole reform in Mississippi, and passing legislation to convert abandoned commercial lots into affordable housing units.