Oyindamola Ire-Hill (formerly Esho) is a writer and award-winning scholar with an interest in helping to improve the place of Black people and other racialized minorities in Canada’s political and cultural landscape. She interrogates infrastructures, how they are made, upheld and by whom. Black music as a crucial part of Black life is another topic she can’t stop thinking or writing about.

She has a Master’s degree in Communications and Culture from York and Toronto Metropolitan Universities. Oyindamola was awarded a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s (2021) for her research creation project Beyond Africa as Aesthetic: Exploring Nigerian Afrobeat as a Liberative Tool.

She enjoys baking, reading, listening to music and dancing in her free time.