Communications Specialist
Refugee 613, Ottawa, ON
Expertise: Professional Development Skills (service delivery and education), Immigration (Canadian Immigration)
Dr. Esther Ajiboye is a communications professional with over a decade’s experience facilitating audience-specific communications for diverse groups and individuals. She firmly believes that language is a powerful resource for inclusion, social cohesion, social organization, and social transformation; this is the crux of her writings which appear in renowned language and communication journals, including Discourse and Society, Pragmatics and Society, and Journal of Asian and African Studies.
She has taught language and communications strategies to university students and professionals in the service industry. She is a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (Awardee: African Humanities Program). She currently works as a Content Specialist for the Newcomer Info Hub project at Refugee 613 where she produces trusted COVID-19 and newcomer-specific information in linguistically accessible and culturally relevant formats to effectively reach newcomer audiences.