ADETOLA OLATUNJI, 2022 Mosaic Fellow

Adetola Olatunji is an MBA Candidate at Columbia Business School, where she is Columbia Fellow, Forté Fellow and Robert A. Toigo Fellow. Passionate about advancing racial equity and systems change in the education and workforce sectors, she has a decade of professional experience investing in and advising mission-driven founders and their teams. Immediately prior to Columbia Business School, Adetola completed a full-time summer fellowship focused on EdTech and the Future of Work at Kapor Capital, a venture capital firm in Oakland, CA. Prior to this fellowship, she spent five years as an investor and advisor at New Profit, a venture philanthropy firm, where she designed, fundraised for and oversaw a $2 million fund focused on helping education social enterprises integrate diversity, equity inclusion practices in their work. She also spent four years as a strategist and advisor at Michael Porter-led Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), and a year as a business analyst connecting startup founders to legal support and investment opportunities at Dhar Law LLP. In 2021, Adetola received the HBCUvc Emerging Venture Leaders Award, and served as a BLCK VC NYC Path Venture Fellow and Dorm Room Fund Female Investor Track Fellow. While CBS, she also has been a Columbia Venture Fellow at BBG Ventures, held leadership roles in VC Club and Microlumbia (impact investing fund), and is a member of the Black Business Student Association, Fintech & Blockchain Club, Social Enterprise Club, and Follies Dance. Adetola graduated from Princeton University with a BA in Political Economy.