Faith Adiele

Moderator  |  Author, Speaker, Professor, and Mentor


SESSION 3B  |  Book Agents: What’s Happening Now  


Faith Adiele (she/her) is author of Meeting Faith, an award-winning account of becoming Thailand’s first Black Buddhist nun, and The Nigerian Nordic Girl’s Guide to Lady Problems. Her media credits include A World of Calm (HBO Max), Sleep Stories (Calm app), the documentary My Journey Home (PBS) about finding her family in Nigeria, and a travel column in Detour and the Miami Herald. She co-founded the nation’s first writing workshop for BIPOC travelers and African Book Club at the Museum of the African Diaspora. One of Marie Claire magazine’s “Five Women to Learn From,” Faith chairs the Writing and Literature program at California College of the Arts.


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