Nedjie, originally from Haiti, now lives in Ithaca and attends Ithaca High School. In addition to taking Government and Economics at Ithaca High this summer, Nedjie worked part-time in the Jander lab with post-doc Carina Barth. Nedjie worked on planting seeds and growing and weighing caterpillars for a feeding study with two species, Trichopulsia ni and Plutella xylostella.