Niema is a rising junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is originally from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. While at Chapel Hill, he was the Town Relations Committee Chair and was the student representative to the City of Chapel Hill.

He is devoted to seeing greater social and economic justice both in the United States as well as internationally, as well as a greater acceptance of all people despite their differences in race, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender or political affiliation.