Adeola Oredola (she/her) is a space holder, educator, and facilitator rooted in a lineage that stretches from Saki, Nigeria, and Bolgatanga, Ghana, to Chicago, Starkville, and her home community in Providence, RI, on Narragansett land. With over 20 years of experience in nonprofit leadership and consulting, she supports social justice circles through facilitation, coaching, training, and event curation, centering systemic well-being, collective healing, transformative play, and Black liberation.

She works independently and in partnership with IISC. Adeola’s joy lives in curating play spaces, Black geekiness, meditation, ceramics, firelight, and the kind of conversations that nourish the soul. Learn more about Adeola.

nisha purushotham (she/her) is a leadership coach, facilitator, and cultural worker with three decades of experience in movement-building across organizing, research, youth work, and the arts. Her practice blends facilitative leadership, popular education, somatics, parts work, and sound and ancestral healing—rooted in healing justice, abolitionist vision, and deep trust in our bodies’ intuition and the wisdom of the Land.

nisha joined IISC in 2017 and has since partnered with organizations and networks working toward racial justice, health equity, climate resiliency, digital equity, and more. She is also a certified coach through Coaching for Healing, Justice, and Liberation, where she serves on the Wisdom Council and primarily supports women and queer leaders of color. When she’s not coaching or facilitating, nisha is experimenting with sound, tending ancestral practices, and exploring the connections between healing, imagination, and collective liberation. Learn more about nisha.