As Vice President, Toyin leads Luminate’s work in Africa to enable people to fully participate in civic and political life, to safely challenge power, and to access accurate, trustworthy information. Toyin is a member of the Leadership Team. 

Toyin brings extensive experience in the development sector in regional and international contexts to her position. Her strong background in the development sector cuts across roles in media development, strategy, programme management, communications, research and advocacy, monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), grantmaking, civic engagement, and stakeholder management. 

Prior to joining Luminate, Toyin held different roles at the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) where she developed and delivered initiatives aimed at advancing the organisation’s resource governance goals in Nigeria, served as NRGI’s Communications and Advocacy Officer for Anglophone Africa, managed NRGI’s media programs across the Africa region, and contributed to the global media programme work where she also designed its MEL platform.

Previously, Toyin helped improve Nigeria’s investigative journalism landscape through her research, strategy development, media monitoring, women-in-media and allied programme management work at the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism. 

As an author, Toyin contributed to African Muckraking: 75 Years of Investigative Journalism from Africa;Remaking Nigeria: Sixty Years, Sixty Voices, among others. She is a Stanford Draper Hills Fellow.