Nigar Sultana (Raisa) is a Ph.D. student in Interpersonal, Intergroup, and Health Communication. She earned her M.A. in Communication from the University of Arizona, where she developed a foundation in communication research and quantitative methods.

Her research examines how media consumption shapes attitudes toward social groups, with particular attention to the emotions that media evoke and how those emotions prepare people to act. She is interested in what makes some entertainment media function as a meaningful form of intergroup contact, one capable of reducing prejudice and building empathy across cultural boundaries.