This past year she was awarded a competitive fellowship to attend the 2015 Mellon Summer Dance Studies Seminar at Northwestern University. In July, Nyama attended the New Waves! Summer Dance Institute in Port of Spain, Trinidad; while there she presented excerpts from, "Wanted," at the Dancing While Black Performance Lab. Also, during summer of 2015, she was selected to participate in Doug Varone's choreographic intensive, Devices, at Purchase College in New York. As an outcome of Varone's mentorship, Nyama choreographed and performed a new work, "Location: Lost," at the 92nd Street Y in August.