Yemí is an architect and senior development manager with experience in the private, public and third sectors. Describing herself as an agitator, innovator and orchestrator, Yemí advocates for education, income & housing equality and is committed to matters relating to social mobility and broadening access to the built environment.
Yemí is a non-executive board member of Women’s Pioneer Housing association, ambassador for The Architects Benevolent Society and co-founder of the PARADIGM Network. She served as an elected national council member for the Royal Institute of British Architects. Yemí was selected as one the UK’s next generation of boundary-pushing designers and innovators by the Architect’s Journal in its 40 under 40 cohort 2020.