Bayo Akomolafe

Dr. Akomolafe is the Hubert Humphrey Distinguished Professor of American Studies in Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota (August 2025) and has previously lectured at the Pacifica Graduate Institute, California. He sits on the Board of many organizations. Dr. Akomolafe is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from the California Institute of Integral Studies (2023). He is also the recipient of the New Thought Leadership Award 2021 and the Excellence in Ethnocultural Psychotherapy Award by the African Mental Health Summit 2022. In a ceremony in July 2023, the City of Portland awarded Dr. Akomolafe with the symbolic ‘Key to the City’ in recognition of his planet-wide work and achievements.

A frequent keynote speaker and guest lecturer, Dr. Akomolafe has been taught, and has been a guest, at Harvard University, Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada), Schumacher College (Totnes, England), Swaraj University (India), Middlebury College (Vermont), Sonoma State University, Duke University (North Carolina), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Case Western Reserve University, Tufts University, the University of Turin, among others. He has been featured in several film documentaries including the award winning ‘Regenerar: Possible Paths on a Damaged Planet’ (2022), ‘Where We Find Ourselves’ by Darren Bender (2025), and ‘Closer to Home: Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis’ (2024).