PAGE Co-Directors

Ololade Faniyi

PAGE Co-Director

Ololade Faniyi is an African feminist interdisciplinary Ph.D. student in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department at Emory University. Her graduate research explores the relationship between critical technology studies and African feminist thought with a focus on Afro-feminist decolonial reimaginations of technological utopian narratives and continental encounters with data and digital technologies. She earned degrees from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria (BA English, MA African Studies) and Bowling Green State University (MA American Culture Studies), where she was awarded the BGSU’s Graduate College Best Thesis Award for her work on feminist/queer hashtags and networks in Nigeria’s #EndSARS. 

Ololade is currently the Gender and Feminisms editor at the pan-African digital publishing platform The Republic. She is also a graduate fellow with the Atlanta Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence (AIAI) Network, as well as the research programs lead of the critical AI interdisciplinary fellowship for Nigerian humanities and social sciences graduate students organized by ResearchRound. 

Ololade has received fellowships and grants from Emory’s Halle Institute, Cornell’s Freedom on the Move, and Feminist Africa. Her work has been published in Feminist Media Studies, Communication, Culture and Critique, Feminist Africa, and Women’s Studies Quarterly. She has contributed to public scholarship on Nigerian gender politics, feminist activism, and digital cultures through BBC Focus on Africa, OkayAfrica, and MozFest. 

Website: https://ololadefaniyi.com