Born in Baltimore and raised in Festac Town, Nigeria, Adaku comes from a long lineage of organizers, farmers, and healers. This legacy grounds their work as a grassroots strategist, organizer, abolitionist healer, movement facilitator, and spiritual ecologist. Their work is both political and deeply personal, a practice of love and commitment to their communities.

For over twenty years, Adaku has worked alongside movements for gender, reproductive, racial, youth, and healing justice, supporting leaders and organizations in cultivating strategic, sustainable, and liberatory ways of working together to build power. They believe in building movements that not only change systems but also deepen our capacity to care for one another, remain connected, and become more alive and present with this sacred life.

Adaku currently serves as the Director of Movement Building Programs at the  Building Movement Project, where they work with movement-building organizations on both short-term rapid-response efforts and long-term power building ecosystem strategy. They also co-host and uplift narrative power through the Solidarity Is This podcast, facilitate transformative trainings and gatherings, and develop tools and practices to strengthen solidarity across movements.

Previously, they served as the Organizing Director at the National Network of Abortion Funds, where they helped build collective power with 90+ member organizations, thousands of members, and movement leaders across the country.

For the past ten years, Adaku has also co-facilitated Harriet’s Apothecary, an all-Black collective of healers, cultural workers, and organizers committed to carrying forward Harriet Tubman’s legacy of abolition and healing justice as core strategies for liberation.

They are a Senior Teacher and Coach with BOLD (Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity), and a teacher and practitioner with multiple local and national embodied leadership programs, supporting movements in their work to transform the conditions that shape our lives—by transforming the body, the collective, and our possibilities.

At the heart of their work is the belief that liberation is something we practice together: through relationship, through the body, through spirit, and through how we choose to show up with the Earth.