ROTIMI ADEOYE

Rotimi Adeoye is a political writer and MSNBC Contributor.

His published stories span various topics, including immigration, American history, voting rights, and the Constitution.

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

Formerly, Rotimi was an advisor 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 a U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) aide and as a battleground state volunteer on the Obama Campaign in 2012.

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