Nia Colvin

Nia Colvin is a character in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. She is one of the Sarif Industries scientists kidnapped by the Tyrants and forced to work for the Illuminati.

Background
Nia Colvin was born in 1981 in Detroit to an African-American blue-collar family. She graduated magna cum laude from MIT in biochemstry in 2007, she was hired by Latham Studios in 2008. She was fired in 2020 following the hostile takeover of Latham by Tai Yong Medical, and then hired by Sarif Industries in the same year.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Dr. Colvin is first seen during the night of the Tyrant attack, speaking briefly with Megan Reed about readiness for the augmentation hearing in Washington. After the attack, she and four other scientists are presumed dead.

Six months later, Adam Jensen smuggles himself to the Omega Ranch facility in Singapore, hoping to find the missing scientists after having learned that they are alive. Jensen eventually finds Eric Koss, Declan Faherty and Dr. Colvin herself. He learns that they were forced to work on a new biochip, which would limit the abilities of augmented people, making it easier for the Illuminati to control them. Adam formulated a plan of escape, which consisted of a simultaneous explosion in each of their labs, and disabling the G-P-L tracker with a virus Vasili Sevchenko created before he was executed by Belltower.