Nadine Jäger graduated in cultural studies and culture management from the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany in 2006. During her studies, she spent a year abroad at the Université Paris Sorbonne V (2002/2003) in France. Currently, she is writing a PhD on Postmigrational Theater Practice in Berlin supervised by Prof. Werner Schiffauer at the Viadrina.

In 2010, Nadine Jäger was a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany, where she coordinated among other things the exhibition and the Performance-Series Territories of the In/Humane at the Württembergische Kunstverein. From 2005 to 2009, she was the press coordinator of the Staatsballett Berlin. Before that, Nadine Jäger had worked and interned at several cultural institutions in Berlin and abroad, including the Goethe-Institut in Abidjan, Ivory Coast (2004), an educational and cultural project for street children in Dakar, Senegal (2003) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Kultur e.V. in Lahore, Pakistan (2000).