Kemi Bello is a storyteller and communicator, and currently works at Magoosh, an edtech company, as a Content Marketing Manager.

Prior to joining Magoosh, Kemi was the Communications Manager at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, a national legal advocacy organization, where she provided ongoing internal and external communications strategy and content support for the ILRC’s various projects, campaigns and legal resources.

Before that, she led and supported communications, policy advocacy, fundraising, knowledge management and research for organizations serving a variety of social issues, including diversity and inclusion in tech, immigrant rights, labor rights, cultural strategy and higher education access.

Kemi cut her teeth in digital and editorial strategy after joining the movement for educational access for undocumented students in 2006. She went on to co-found both a statewide alliance of campus-based student organizations and a national digital resource and action hub, through which she supported the website’s information architecture, wrote blog posts and action alerts, disseminated petition-based campaigns via social platforms, managed and shipped merchandise inventory, and generally fell in love with the internet.

A former DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipient, Kemi has danced in a Boyz II Men-inspired flash mob, performed poetry at museums, galleries and universities, marched with a cumbia band, and ridden a bus named Priscilla through the Southern U.S. – all in the name of storytelling and social impact.

She is a proud data lover and alumna of the University of Houston, where she double majored in mathematics and economics.

Nigerian-born and Texas-raised, Kemi prefers her tea sweet, her food spicy, and her music heavy on the drumbeat. She remains eternally humbled by the power, the potential, and the privilege of the written and spoken word.