[multiple citations needed] In 2019 Nagam was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts, Collaboration and Digital Media.

[citations needed] Dr. Nagam has claimed Métis, German and Syrian heritage, but the Winnipeg Free Press and Hamilton Spectator exposed her Pretendian ambitions, and the $18m she raised to support them, in August 2024.

[10][11] Nagam was leading the partnership[12] "The space between us: Collaborations within Indigenous, Circumpolar and Pacific places through digital media", funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

[15] The theme "focuses on the connections across urban, polar and pacific landscapes revealing the space between us as a potential site for sharing knowledges.

[19][20][21] Nagam is a member of GLAM Collective, a group of scholars who work collaboratively “through theory, curatorial and artistic practices.”[22] With GLAM, Nagam co-curated a series of digital and new media incubators (Memory Keepers I, II, and III) for Indigenous artists, resulting in the installation of works at three Canadian night festivals in 2019.

In 2019, her solo exhibition locating the little heartbeats was shown at Gallery 1C03 in Winnipeg and travelled to Te Whare Hera in Wellington, New Zealand.