Nimz is from Waimanalo, Hawaiʻi, and completed her undergraduate degree in Conservation Biology and Marine Science at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Before starting an MSMS at HPU, she spent six seasons working with Hawaiian monk seals, seabirds and habitat restoration projects in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, and completed additional seabird seasons in the Aleutians, Farallones and mountains of Kauaʻi. Nimz’s MSMS thesis is on the diving behavior and diet of the Chocolate shearwater (Puffinus nativitatis) on Kure Atoll. In her limited free time, she enjoys painting wildlife, swimming, climbing trees, and adventuring on her boat, the Narwhal.

Nimz currently manages Winged Ambassadors Albatross Bolus Collaboration, an educational program with Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge. In partnership with the State of Hawaiʻi and Kure Atoll Conservancy, this unique program provides albatross boluses to educators, supplementing a free online curriculum that uses charismatic seabirds to teach students about ocean currents and marine debris. With the bolus dissection activity, students experience a hands-on understanding of how marine debris impacts wildlife.