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Meet Our Team

Ganiyat Sadiq

Ganiyat Sadiq

Co-Founder & Co-Executive Officer External

Ganiyat Sadiq is an advocate who aims to establish substantial solutions to address growing political and social inequity.

Oluwadamipe (Peace) Aladesemipe

Oluwadamipe (Peace) Aladesemipe

Recruitment Director

Oluwadamipe Aladesemipe is a Social Work Major and Law and Society minor at the University of Calgary.

Atiyat Oyegoke

Atiyat Oyegoke

Finance & Resource Coordinator

Atiyat Oyegoke is currently fourth year accounting student at the University of Calgary.

Tomide Leshi

Tomide Leshi

Programming Coordinator

Tomide Leshi is a 4th-year environmental science student at the University of Calgary.

Keren Harrison

Keren Harrison

Co-Founder & Co-Executive Officer Internal

Keren Harrison is a community leader, social justice activist, and policy advocate with over four years of anti-racism experience.

Demilade Odusola

Demilade Odusola

Programming Director

Demilade Odusola is a fourth-year student at the University of Calgary majoring in Communications and Media Studies and Biological Sciences

Taslimah Oyeyemi.

Taslimah Oyeyemi.

Administrative Coordinator

Taslimah Oyeyemi is an Honours BSc in Cellular and Molecular Biology graduate that is passionate about social change.

Abisola  Adegbulugbe

Abisola Adegbulugbe

Programming Coordinator

Abisola Adegbulugbe is a recent graduate of the University of British Columbia, where she
completed an Honours Bachelor of Science in Microbiology.

Em Hirse

Em Hirse

Marketing Director

Em Hirse is a marketing professional with a background in customer service and administration

Alexander Gorecki

Alexander Gorecki

Finance & Resource Director

Alexander Gorecki is an experienced Quality Assurance Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the services industry.

Stephanie Otieno

Stephanie Otieno

Administrative Coordinator

Stephanie Otieno is a fourth year political science and psychology student at the University of Alberta.

Bisola Anifowose

Bisola Anifowose

Marketing Coordinator

Bisola Anifowose is currently second-year business student at the University of Calgary.

Founders

BIA was founded in May 2020 in Calgary, Alberta after five student leaders decided that enough was enough. They wanted to see Black youth in Alberta have access to safe spaces that reflected them, and opportunities to access resources that they were restricted from. The for us, by us model has centered BIA's mission, and the founders' contributions to the organization are long-lasting. 

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Keren Harrison

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Fayo Abdi

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Ganiyat Sadiq

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Bohlale Bam

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Ornela Thieba

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