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Olaolu Adeleye
Director, Partnerships & Operations
Pronouns: He/Him
Email: oadeleye@uvic.ca
As the Director of Partnerships & Operations, Olaolu collaborates with the executive team to identify and grow new partnerships and revenue streams in line with CanAssist’s vision, mission and values, while also overseeing and providing strategic direction to daily operations and CanAssist project leads.
Olaolu is a Nigerian-Canadian whose interests and experiences lie at the intersections of people, policy, pedagogy and parity. He has a passion for social development and equity informed by an intercultural lens and studies in International Development (Dalhousie University) and Poverty Reduction: Policy & Practice (University of London – School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS)). He has a range of experiences, working with global NGO’s, in public policy with global multilateral organizations, in Higher Education as a faculty member at Royal Roads University, and most recently in consulting as a part of Deloitte’s Human and Social Services practice.
I acknowledge the ancestral, traditional and unceded territories throughout British Columbia, Canada, where I have the privilege to live, work and play. This includes the territories of the W̱SÁNEĆ (Saanich) Peoples, and the lək̓ʷəŋən (lekwungen) and the Xwsepsum of the Songhees and Esquimalt families where I currently reside. I am also grateful for the hospitality that I have received from the Anishinaabe, the Miꞌkmaq, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Métis, and the Chippewa in whose respective territories I have also spent significant time.
My commitment to celebrating the diversity and richness of Indigenous cultures on Turtle Island is based in gratitude, honour and respect through the incorporation of Indigenous epistemologies and understandings, supporting decolonization, reconciliation, and Indigenization.
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