ROTIMI ADEOYE

Rotimi Adeoye is an Opinion Columnist at The Daily Beast and an Executive Board Member of the Pennsylvania Young Democrats.

His published stories at The Daily Beast span a wide range of topics, including immigration, American history, voting rights, labor unions, and the Constitution.

Rotimi has appeared on MSNBC and podcasts such as the Modern Minorities Podcast, Greater Media Society, Democracy-ish, and Sirius XM The Reecie Colbert Show. His advocacy and writing have appeared in The New York Times, CBS News, Bloomberg, Teen Vogue, The New Republic, MSNBC, Axios, The Download, and other places.

Formerly, Rotimi was a communications strategist for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Voting Rights Project. Before joining the ACLU, Rotimi worked on Capitol Hill as a Press Secretary and Speechwriter to Congressman Dan Kildee (MI-05), Chief Deputy Whip of the House Democratic Caucus under then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Before that, Rotimi worked as an aide to U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) and as a battleground state volunteer on the Obama Campaign in 2012.

During his college years, Rotimi ran a student-led voter registration organization Hobart and William Smith Votes (HWS Votes). Rotimi is a law student at Temple Beasley School of Law. He graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges with a degree in Political Science.