Biography

Asile (uh-sigh-yul) is a writer, facilitator, and strategist from Atlanta, Georgia. Her work centers Black liberation, healing justice, and highlights the importance of Sankofa in building today's Black liberation movements across the Diaspora. Using reflection and journaling as a means for healing and liberation, Asile is the author of The Sankofa Series, a blog series embodying the adinkra symbol Sankofa, a Twi word from the Akan Tribe of Ghana that loosely translates to, “go back and get it”. Currently, Asile is the founder and CEO of Asile Strategies, a strategic consulting agency dedicated to creating enduring, sustainable impact. 

Internationally, Asile has conducted research on the intersections between Black business movements, social mobility, and colorblind systems while studying in Paris, France through Syracuse University's Paris Noir program. On the state level, Asile was a 2020 Georgia Women’s Policy Institute Fellow, advocating for gender pay equity legislation in the state of Georgia. She was also an inaugural Highlander Center ‘Seeds of Fire’ grant recipient, where she designed and facilitated a series of intimate focus groups within Black communities to discuss the political landscape in Georgia. Asile also developed and piloted a multi-layered methodology to reimagine how civic engagement can mend the gaps of social and economic inequality through the first study and review of Atlanta's historic Neighborhood Planning Unit system in over 40 years.

Asile is an Associate Project Consultant with CommunityBuild Ventures, a pro-Black solutions firm committed to promoting racial equity in the workplace. She previously served as Atlanta Regional Organizer with Abundant Housing Atlanta. 

Asile is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a dual Bachelor of Arts Degree in African American Studies & Civic Engagement from Syracuse University. Outside of her professional work, Asile is an emerging yogi, a plant mom, a wine enthusiast, and a proud member of the #Beyhive.