Adiyah Obolu

Adiyah Obolu is a senior at Yale University majoring in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and pursuing a Certificate in Education Studies. Her upbringing in Sacramento, California, has shaped her passion for educational advocacy, storytelling, and community-centered justice. At Yale, she is an Edward A. Bouchet Undergraduate Research Fellow and a member of WORD at Yale, where her poetry explores questions of race, memory, solidarity, and liberation. Beyond Yale, Adiyah co-founded The Obolu Blueprint, a mentorship initiative supporting students nationwide through the college application process, and has worked with the Transformative Justice in Education Center at UC Davis to develop curriculum centering Sacramento’s Black history. Across her work, she is interested in how storytelling and education can preserve community histories and imagine more just futures.