Nicole is a Ph.D. candidate in geography and an assistant director at the Center for Refugee Studies at Indiana University. She is a scholar and practitioner working at the intersection of migration, data governance, and digital technologies, focusing on how emerging systems like artificial intelligence reshape global mobility and humanitarian response. Her research examines the political economy and geography of data in refugee and asylum processes, exploring how digital categorization, biometric databases, and algorithmic decision-making influence access to protection and rights. She is particularly interested in how data is shared, governed, and contested across borders, and how these practices reconfigure both physical and digital landscapes of displacement.
