Jumoke Zainab Abdullahi is a Nigerian-born British force of nature who co-founded two organisations, Our Living Archives and The Triple Cripples. These organisations exemplify her deep passion for social justice, focusing on the impact that the media, and wider systems, have on marginalised people, especially those racialised as Black.

Jumoke is a writer and speaker with by-lines in and speaking appearances for Glamour, Black Ballad, WOW Foundation, and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. In 2022, she also contributed a chapter to the academic book Homonationalism, Femonationalism and Ablenationalism Critical Pedagogies Contextualised. Given the focus of her work, she is studying towards a master’s in race, media, and social justice at the University of London, Goldsmiths. Her dissertation topic focuses on the impact of media representation on UK-based Black disabled women and how this impacts their sense of self and community.

As a 2024 Emerge Fellow at the Paul K Longmore Institute of San Francisco State University, her research project aims to explore the impact of media representation on US-based Black disabled women. As a member of the Black Health Humanities Network, Jumoke is also interested in issues related to racism in healthcare. Following the completion of her MA, she hopes to continue her research onto PhD level. She has a particular interest in exploring the topics of Nigerian traditional and digital media and Yoruba cosmological understanding and ideas pertaining to disability and disabled people.

Outside of academia, Jumoke has contributed extensively to advisory boards, including the V&A Museum, Media Trust, and Brunel University. Her work has also been mentioned in Metro and Huffington Post newspapers and Vogue magazine. When not busy speaking, writing, studying and advising, Jumoke spends her time being a professional baby girl, a Yorubaddie, if you will.