Kile Adumene

Kile is a community organizer extraordinaire. Working as a consultant with the state of NH, Kile helped create an initiative called Pathways for Healing, which did community outreach to connect residents in Manchester from diverse and marginalized groups with services. She brings her lived experience of how well community can work from growing up in Nigeria and her natural instinct to listen and connect people. She helped found and facilitates the Manchester Community Action Coalition. The Coalition hosts regular meetings in the Manchester community for people of color, immigrants, and others to come together to address their needs and have voice in community and civic matters. During the pandemic, this group launched a virtual tutoring program to support marginalized and low income students in the Manchester School District. Without this program, many students would not have received the critical support they needed to keep up in school. Further this program and the work of MCAC had been a critical place of connection, support and community engagement during a time when youth in particular have been struggling with feelings of helplessness and social isolation. We are so grateful for all the work they Kile helps to facilitate with other community members to ensure all people thrive in Manchester and across our state, even in these times of crisis.