Rotimi Adeoye is a political commentator and Opinion Columnist at The Daily Beast.
His published stories at The Daily Beast span a wide range of crucial topics, including immigration, American history, voting rights, and the Constitution.
Rotimi regularly appears on MSNBC and podcasts such as the Modern Minorities Podcast, Greater Media Society, Democracy-ish, Sirius XM The Reecie Colbert Show. His advocacy and writing have appeared in Teen Vogue, The New Republic, MSNBC, Axios, and other places.
Formerly, Rotimi was a communications advisor for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Voting Rights Project. Before joining the ACLU, Rotimi worked on Capitol Hill as a Press Secretary to Congressman Dan Kildee (MI-05), Chief Deputy Whip of the House Democratic Caucus. Prior to 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 led the highly successful student-led voter registration organization Hobart and William Smith Votes (HWS Votes). In the 2016 Presidential election, HWS Votes was recognized as the number one collegiate, student-led voter registration organization in the nation, surpassing institutions like Harvard University, Amherst College, Bowdoin College, and the University of Notre Dame.
Rotimi is currently a law student at Temple Beasley School of Law and currently lives in Philadelphia. He graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges with a degree in Political Science.