Ibilola Owoyele

Ibilola Owoyele is a Nigerian-American raised in Sacramento, California, Ibilola Owoyele is currently a Project Manager for Chemonics International, USAID’s largest implementing partner, where her work in West and Central Africa and Haiti focuses on rule of law, economic trade, and countering violent extremism. Before Chemonics, she served as a 2017-18 Princeton-in-Africa fellow at the African School of Economics in Benin, where she conducted impact evaluation research for donor-funded programs. She is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, majoring in Culture & Politics with a minor in African Studies. Her thesis “From Adire to Ankara” received the SFS Tropaia Africa Prize and examined the political performance of gender and resistance through Yoruba womenswear throughout history. Ibilola enjoys reading, listening to podcasts, and finding the best new Afrobeats songs in her spare time.