About
Najma is a Brooklyn-based multi-hyphenate who loves to envision and create initiatives that resonate with her and her community.
— And she's been at this a while.
Najma · "Colors" · July 1990
Bio
Her practice specialties include project management, creative direction, UX and service design, wellness, event production, and emerging technology. She prides herself on her ability to merge her many passions in unique and innovative ways — each project an excuse to initiate creative, human-centered solutions.
Since 2022 she's been an Adjunct Professor at NYU IDM, where she designed the inaugural undergraduate Virtual Reality course and also teaches VR Studio (graduate), UX for XR (undergraduate), and Restorative Spaces (graduate). She holds an M.S. in Integrated Digital Media from NYU and a B.S. in Communications Management from Manhattanville College.
She is also a fiction writer and visual artist — see the studio for books in progress, selected digital art, and her newsletter.
Feel free to reach out if you'd like to connect.
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Brands & Clients
Experience
2017 → now
- 2022 — Present
Adjunct Professor, Integrated Digital Media
New York University
Designed NYU's inaugural undergraduate Virtual Reality course. Also teach VR Studio (graduate), UX for XR (undergraduate), and Restorative Spaces (graduate). - 2022 — 2025
Curriculum Designer, K-5 ELA
Platinum Edge Tutoring
Standards-aligned literacy curriculum, differentiated materials, and evidence-based instruction. - 2024
Strategic Communications Specialist
Teachers College, Columbia University
Digital strategy for the launch of Teachers College's inaugural city-funded Black Studies curriculum. - 2019 — 2022
Co-Founder
Brooklyn Bridge Flow
A mobile wellness studio increasing Black representation in yoga and wellness. - 2017 — 2018
Graduate Assistant — Producer & UX Researcher
New York University (IDM)
Overhauled the department website for accessibility; led a lab section of 20 students. - 2017
Accessibility Design Researcher & PM
Cooper Hewitt Museum (in partnership with NYU)
WCAG redesign and institutional style guide; led a team of six.
Publications & Press
- 2022
Ordinary Extraordinary African American Women: Millennials
Featured — a 12-lesson curriculum documenting the life-journeys of Black American women aged 25-45.
- 2018
NYC Media Lab · Havas Fund and Support NYC Graduate Students' Emerging Technology Prototypes on Governors Island
- 2017
Visionary VR/AR projects from Tandon community featured at NYC Media Lab Summit
- 2017
NYU Tandon Explores Our Future Reality
- 2017
NYC Media Lab awards $25,000 in prizes for emerging media technology prototypes and startups
- 2017
Combining motion capture technology with a virtual reality platform, Relevant Motion provides low-cost, in-home and in-clinic occupational therapy
- 2017
NYU Tandon Celebrates Achievements of Our Students and Faculty
- 2021
Code as Creative Medium: A Handbook for Computational Art and Design — Golan Levin & Tega Brain
Contributing researcher on case-study material.
- 2017
Let's Get Physical! — How to Make a Physiological Response Detector
Education
M.S., Integrated Digital Media & Design
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
2018B.S., Communications Management
Manhattanville College
Full Stack Web Developer Certificate
New York City College of Technology
2019200-Hour RYT
Laughing Lotus Yoga, Brooklyn
2019Fine Arts Coursework
Manhattanville College & Richland College
Recognition
- — Havas Fellowship, 2018
- — NYC Media Lab Summit 2017 · 2nd Place, Creative Technology
- — Exhibitions: Future Tense VR Popup (2018), Prototyping the Augmented Island (2018), IDM Spring Show (2017)
- — Certifications: RYT-200 · Google Ads · Full Stack Web Developer
Say hello
najma@nyu.edu
Brooklyn, NY · (214) 562 0398