Tinuade (Tinu) Akinshola is a Social Entrepreneur, Social/Gender Justice Advocate, and Attorney with extensive years of corporate transactional and policy work experience that cuts across diverse sectors including small business, contract compliance, community development, public procurement, business investigation, immigration, international human rights, social and gender justice, legal compliance, and international business transactions. Tinu received a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LL.B Hons.) from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, Nigeria in 1992; a Barrister License in Law (BL.) from the Nigerian Law School, Victoria Island, Lagos in 1993; and a Master of Laws (LL.M) degree in International and Comparative Law, Georgetown Law School, Washington, DC in 1996. She is a Licensed attorney with bar admissions in the District of Columbia, State of Maryland (In-active), and New York State (US), as well as a Licensed Solicitor and Barrister of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
Tinu Akinshola consistently advocates for small and mid-size businesses, women and girls, particularly in the developing world. Consequently, she assists to champion, coordinating, moderate and participating in forums and conferences relating to women and girls’ economic/social empowerment, business development, and human rights sessions. She is the Founder and President of She Rises Int’l, Inc., an organization that proactively advocates for gender justice and equity locally (U.S.) and throughout the developing world. She continues to support other agencies and organizations that represent, assist, and advocate social equality and justice for women, girls, children, and the less privileged.
Tinu served as the Legal Sector Chair of the African Union’s former Pan African Diaspora Women Association (PADWA), Washington, DC under the Leadership of Her Excellency Arikhana Chihombori-Quao. Tinu is currently an Executive Board Member of the African Diaspora Development Initiative (ADDI), as well as a Member of the Nigerian American Lawyers Association (NALA) for which she served as the Association’s first Law Students President.