About
Fadilat was born in Nigeria and raised in Staten Island, New York. She graduated in 2018 from CUNY Brooklyn College with a BA in Psychology and Sociology with honors. She studies race and ethnicity and cultural sociology. Her primary research examines the racial identity formation, racialization, and ethno-racial socialization practices of Nigerian immigrants in the United States.
Prior to joining the department, Fadilat worked as a Legal Assistant at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) where she supported several attorneys that litigated in the civil rights and racial justice space and as a Research Assistant at the Thurgood Marshall Institute - LDF’s interdisciplinary think tank. Fadilat is a Mellon Mays Fellow and Rackham Merit Fellow
