Erioluwa Adeyinka
Executive Director
Erioluwa is an educator and social entrepreneur. He currently serves as the Executive Director at YouthxYouth, a global learning community aimed at accelerating the processes of young people influencing, designing, and transforming their learning and education systems, especially within the Global Majority (Global South). In the last four years of co-leading this work, he has supported over 2,000 youths in over 80 countries with Global hubs in Nigeria, Tanzania, Cameroun, Uganda, Kenya, and South Africa through the organization's programs and pedagogy rooted in liberatory learning. He is also the co-founder of a community-based organization in Nigeria that is reimagining education through teachers' training, curriculum development, social entrepreneurship, and capacity building to ensure an equitable world for Nigerian children. Through the programs designed by Erioluwa and his team, many young people have been able to start equitable youth-led projects solving some of the most pressing issues in their communities. As a result of his work as a changemaker, he has been recognized as a Salzburg Global fellow, a fellow of the Ashoka Young Changemakers for Anglophone West Africa, a Fellow of Kuwaza Africa Fellowship, a Global Youth Ambassador - TheirWorld UK, a fellow of the Barrack Obama/USAID Young Africa Leaders Initiative, a fellow of the Regional Leadership Center West Africa.
Last updated: Oct 12, 2025