Edafe Okporo Biography
Edafe Okporo, is the Mobilization Director (USA) Talent Beyond Boundaries. Okporo is the author of the forthcoming book ASYLUM, a Memoir & Manifesto by Simon and Schuster, Summer 2022 and founder of The Pont. Okporo is among the inaugural winners of the David Prize 2020. The David Prize is a celebration of individuals and ideas to create a better, brighter New York City. Honoree Logo 30, LGBTQ pioneers & Activist by Viacom CBS.
Before joining TBB, Okporo migrated from Nigeria as an asylum seeker in 2016. After the grant of Asylum, he took a full-time job at Eat Off Beat, a social venture in New York employing refugees, and volunteered with not-for-profit organizations. He sat on the board of First Friends of New Jersey and New York before he took the mantle at RDJ New York city's only shelter for refugees in 2018. Okporo led the RDJ Refugee Shelter. From April 2018 to June 2021, he saw the movement for housing refugees to become a sustainable and independent 501 © 3 WANA through fundraising, communication, grassroots, and policy advocacy in the state of New York.
Okporo was born in Warri, Nigeria. A native of Egbo Uhurie, Ughelli South Local government in Delta State Nigeria. He migrated to the United States and now a refugee of the United States, residing in New York.
Okporo graduated from Enugu State University with a major in Food Science and Technology and now a master’s degree student at New York University School of business. His work includes trying to build an inclusive society, both in and out of the workplace. The inclusion of LGBTQ people, refugees, and marginalized people is a path to building an inclusive workplace.
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