05/13/2026
From Barry University to executive leadership roles at Netflix, Twitter, and Colgate-Palmolive, Nikkia Reveillac ’01 has built a career defined by innovation, resilience, and human connection.
Raised in Trinidad and Tobago, Nikkia arrived at Barry searching not only for academic opportunity, but also for community and belonging. While balancing academics with a work-study position to help pay tuition, she developed the discipline, teamwork, and financial responsibility that would later shape her approach to leadership. At the same time, she was navigating homesickness and learning how to build meaningful relationships far from home.
Some of her favorite Barry memories came from the simple moments of dorm life during freshman year. After attending all-girls schools growing up and being surrounded by women at home, she found comfort and freedom in the residence halls, spending nights in common spaces, moving from room to room with friends, and building bonds that made campus feel like family.
Over the course of her career, Nikkia has become a transformative force in insights, innovation, and brand strategy. She helped guide Netflix toward its first-ever brand promise, fostered safer organizational culture at Twitter during the pandemic and 2020 election cycle, and led groundbreaking insights work for Colgate-Palmolive across Africa Eurasia. Today, she continues to empower organizations and individuals through consulting, speaking, mentoring, and her growing community, Birds Uncaged.
Reflecting on her journey, Nikkia shares: “I have built a career by paying attention to what gives me energy and by staying willing to evolve, even when the next step was not obvious.”
Her story is a reminder that success does not have to follow a traditional path. Curiosity, grit, resilience, and authenticity can open doors you never imagined possible.
Barry University BarryU President Mike Allen
