Olutimehin Kukoyi

Olutimehin Kukoyi

Olutimehin Kukoyi is an award-winning writer and social entrepreneur, whose work focuses on diversity, inclusion, and justice in the areas of Gender, Sexualities, and Creative Enterprise. She is the co-founder of That Square Company, a creative consultancy bringing diverse perspectives to the world. Olutimehin Kukoyi also works as a moderator and facilitator at high-impact conferences, meetings, festivals, and workshops, where she also focuses on gender equality and justice, and literature.

Kukoyi’s TED talk on urban inclusion “Who Belongs in a City?“, was delivered at TEDGlobal 2017, and was acclaimed as one of the most notable talks of 2017. She has addressed audiences across four continents and has worked with a wide variety of corporate and civil society organizations nationally and internationally.

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Previously, she was Content Editor at Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie from Mar 2018 to Mar 2021, where she focused on creating, managing, and deploying the firm’s internal and external communications strategies.

Kukoyi received a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of Ibadan in 2013. She is an alumna of the inaugural Writing for Social Justice workshop organized by AWDF in collaboration with FEMRITE (Uganda, 2014), the Farafina Trust Creative Writing workshop (Nigeria, 2015), and the BRITDOC Queer Impact Producers Lab (the USA, 2017), among other fellowships. 

 Kukoyi was awarded the third Gerald Kraak Prize for her essay, ‘Mothers and Men‘, available in print in the Jacana Media anthology, ‘The Heart of the Matter‘. ‘Mothers and Men’ won the 2019 Gerald Kraak Prize and has been published by a range of journalistic, development, and cultural platforms, notably; StyleMANIA Magazine (Nigeria), Essays Magazine (South Africa), Klassekampen (Norway) Women’s Asia 21 (Japan). 

Online, she has been published by Africa Is A Country, the African Feminist Forum, the African Women’s Development Fund, the Association for Women’s Rights in Development, Bistandsaktuelt, The Correspondent, and The New York Times.

 Kukoyi’s works have been translated into 26 languages, with selected publications incorporated into academic curricula in various countries.