ROTIMI ADEOYE

Rotimi Adeoye is a Contributing Opinion Writer with The New York Times.

His published reporting and essays span voting rights, immigration, economic policy, and American history.

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.

Rotimi is a graduate of Hobart and William Smith Colleges with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Economics, and earned his Juris Doctor from Temple University Beasley School of Law.

Recent Essays

Rural America is Getting Blindsided by Something New — The New York Times, May 2026

Democrats Need a New Promise: A House by 30 — The New York Times, March 2026