Biola Jeje is a communications and digital strategist, with a focus in messaging & positioning, political campaigns, and media communications.

Biola has over a decade of specialized experience in managing campaigns, media communications and relations and partnership engagement for political candidates, movements and organizations. She is a leader with success stories in organizing around vital issues in the United States, including healthcare, raising the minimum wage, the student debt crisis, public education and energy, and environmental reform.  Her writings have appeared in The Nation, InTheseTimes, Alternet, Dollars and Sense, The Root, and more. 

Most recently she served as the Mid-Atlantic Communications Director at the Working Families Party where she worked on the ground on campaigns in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and South Carolina. Prior to that, she’d held many roles working with labor unions and worker’s rights organizations, food justice organizations, racial justice organizations, and around fossil fuel divestment.

In 2011 she was one of the co-founders New York Students Rising, a statewide student network dedicated to the defense of public higher education, which was the subject of her senior thesis. In 2012 she traveled to Quebec to see and document firsthand the Quebecois student strike, where over 200k students went on strike to protest tuition hikes. Read more about it here. Biola also worked with organizers across the country as an organizer of the first student power convergence in the summer of 2012 while also serving as an intern in Congress.

She is also a playwright, her first play Conversation in Perdition was produced by the Castillo Theatre in 2011 as part of their Young Playwrights of Castillo program.