Keshad Adeniyi is a visionary with a heart for education, advocacy, and activism. In addition to academia he believes that artistic mediums such as poetry, and visual art, are necessary to educate people who come from various walks of life. 

His thoughts have allowed him to teach others in a number of schools and prisons, both, locally and internationally through organizations that are doing transformational work in incarceral spaces.  The Prison Education Project (PEP), The Social Justice Learning Institute (SJLI), and Columbia University Rikers Education Program, to name a few.  These experiences have offered him the opportunity to travel abroad with PEP Uganda to do similar work in the maximum security prisons in Uganda, Africa.  

As a native of Watts, CA, Keshad has seen and experienced a lot of turmoil from which he has gained insight and in turn, it has influenced him to take on the moniker, Ife Nira, meaning "love is pain." 

He most recently graduated from New York University American Studies, Social Cultural Analysis Program. He conducted research on Branding and its implications on race. Here he investigated branding within the context of slavery and incarceration as a way to incite critical discussion regarding methodology - when it is used by the state to help track and control black bodies. My research used the stories of Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, and Dolly to help guide us through historic moments in the United States where the state leveraged different branding methods to help aide in the capturing of black bodies deemed "out of place." This fall Ife begins his journey as a PHD student at Howard University.

Ife hopes to add to the conversations regarding Abolition, not as a getting rid of perspective but rather a starting anew perspective. 

"We must reimagine justice. We must rethink incarceral spaces" 

                                             - Ife Nira