Born in Baltimore and raised in Festac, Nigeria, Adaku is grounded in a lineage of organizers, farmers, and healers. As a grassroots strategist, abolitionist healer, movement facilitator, somatics practitioner, and ritual artist, they bring over two decades of experience in gender, reproductive, race, and healing justice movements. They currently serve as the Director of Movement Building Programs at the Building Movement Project, supporting rapid-response and long-term solidarity initiatives, hosting the Solidarity Is This podcast, and developing tools and strategies that deepen collective care and connection across networks and movements. A former Organizing Director at the National Network of Abortion Funds, Adaku also co-facilitates Harriet’s Apothecary, an all-Black healer collective rooted in abolition and healing justice. They are a senior teacher with BOLD (Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity) and a number of national embodied leadership programs, nurturing transformative leadership and organizations for liberation.