Jaylin Celina Ward-Ayodeji is a storyteller and Osun priest from the Bronx, New York living in Baltimore, Maryland. From their background in ethnographic journalism to co-founding Generation Green and leading digital organizing at the New Economy Coalition, Ward understands that the stories we tell ourselves shape our capacity to imagine our future.
Today, Jaylin is expanding this capacity as a board member of Scalawag Magazine and strategic communications consultant at her firm Osunlewa Records.
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Education Interdisciplinary Journalism
Howard University
Bachelors of Art 2021
Certification Community Ownership and Workplace Democracy CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies 2026
Spanish Universidad del Oaxaca 2018 EmploymentDirector of Strategic Communications and Programs
New Economy Coalition 2022-2026
Director of Diaspora Organizing and Media
Generation Green 2020-2022
Robina Franklin Williams Editorial Intern
Council on Foreign Relations 2020
Consultant
Discovery Education 2019
Editorial Intern
The Atlantic 2019
PublicationsLoving Corrections for Captive Maternals Laboring in Movement (tm) 2026
The New Economy Roundup
October 2022 to March 2026
Environmental Liberation Manifesto
2021
Remembering the Invasion: The Stories of Afro-Antillean Panamanians
April 15, 2022
A Return to Panama October 7, 2021
Skills
Strategic Communications
Group Facilitation
Investigative Journalism
Ethnographic Research
Strategic Planning
Workplace Democracy
Cooperative Development
Adobe Creative Suite
Canva
Airtable
Google Analytics
Google and Microsoft Suite
Digital and Analog Photography
Events Field to Feed: Ethnographic Approaches for Reporting on the Solidarity Economy June 16, 2026
Through the Portal
Speech: There Are Solidarity Economies All Around Us September 2025
We Fund Us: Five Years Since the Uprisings May 28, 2025
10 Times a Rapper Said Something Lowkey Revolutionary February 2025
Power Shift Network Social Media Planning Workshop 2024
Black August: An Exploratory Conversation with Barred Business August 29, 2023
Environmental Liberation Roundtables: Environmental Liberation and Diaspora Organizing December 3, 2021