Lilainie Adjei-Addo

A little about me

ABOUT

Portrait of Lilainie Adjei-Addo

The first thing I ever built was a space that didn't exist yet.

Black students at my university had little to no space to talk about mental health, so I co-created the space, a wellness group with the only Black female counsellor we had at the time. Then came a podcast/radio show for anyone who needed to hear their own story said out loud.

I've been doing a version of that ever since. Find the people, find what they're missing, and build the thing that lets it exist, then keep it standing long-term. It's how I've coordinated community programs, how I've brought partners to the same table, and how I turn a good idea on a whiteboard into something that fully functions. I like the whole arc, from the first messy conversation to the version that holds.

Media is where a lot of me lives. I film, edit, write, design and shoot photos. I love to create, and I love to create effectively in my voice even more. This site is one of my creations. I taught myself to code with AI and built it on my own. Whatever I make, I want it to feel like it could only have come from me, and I want anyone to be able to walk into it.

Underneath it all is my background in Human Behavioural Sciences. I notice patterns fast, and people will tell you where a system is failing long before the data does, if you know how to pay attention. Good intentions start things, structure keeps them standing, and the best structure is the kind you never notice is there.