HPG Intern: Ebenezer Adeyemi

During the summer of 2022, Ebenezer Adeyemi was a Humanities for the Public Good intern with the Multicultural Development Center of Iowa. Ebenezer Olamiposi Adeyemi is a third-year Ph.D. student in the department of anthropology under the advisement of Dr. Theodore Powers. His doctoral research focuses on the strategies that people living in Makoko, a marginalized informal settlement in Lagos State Nigeria, use to advocate for themselves and access healthcare to treat malaria, the most prominent health problem in their community.