Abayomi Ajaiyeoba, Esq.
New York City Fire Department https://www.linkedin.com/in/abayomi-ajaiyeoba-whint-551a5811/
About The Lecturer
ABAYOMI AJAIYEOBA (“YOMI”) is a Legal Enforcement Attorney in FDNY’s Bureau of Legal Affairs’ Enforcement Unit. She is also the leader of CONNECT (“Civilian Organized Network Nurturing Excellence, Community and Trust,” FDNY’s first employment resource group dedicated to civilians and serves on the Fire Commissioner’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee and Taskforce on Racial Equity and Inclusion. Yomi started her legal career at the New York City Law Department, where she served as an Assistant Corporation Counsel in the Administrative Law Division. Immediately prior to working for FDNY, she was a Deputy Managing Attorney and Administrative Law Judge with the Hearings Division of the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings. She also served as the agency’s EEO counselor. Yomi is an experienced litigator, certified mediator and arbitrator. She is also a certified Restorative Circle Keeper.
Yomi graduated from Rutgers School of Law-Newark in May 2004, where she was an associate editor of the Race and the Law Review, member of the Moot Court Board, clinician with the Community Development Clinic, and provided pro bono services to the Domestic Violence Project. She received her B.A. from Connecticut College, graduating cum laude with distinction in Psychology and a Helen Lehman Buttenweiser scholar.
Yomi is committed to empowering and servicing the community through her involvement in various organizations: she co-chairs the Metropolitan Black Bar Association’s Judicial Training academy—a training program geared towards improving judicial diversity on the bench, is an active member of the NAACP’s Brooklyn Branch Justice Reform and Legal Redress Committees, is a member of FDNY’s Phoenix Society, serves as an arbitrator on the Brooklyn Bar Association’s (“BBA”) Part 137 Fee Dispute Committee and Small Claims Court, served as the President of the Nigerian Lawyers Association, sat on the Kings County Democratic Judicial Screening Committee, chaired the Association of Black Women Attorneys’ Community Service Committee, served as a mentor for the Practicing Attorneys for Law Students Mentoring Program, co-chaired the New York State Bar Association’s (“NYSBA”) Dispute Resolution Section’s Diversity Committee, served on NYSBA’s House of Delegates and Executive Council of the Conference of Bar Leaders, served as a volunteer mediator with the Institute for Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Inc., and provided pro bono services to: Changer, Inc., BBA’s Volunteer Lawyers Project, and InMotion, Inc.
She has a featured essay in the publication, "Conquering the Bar Exam, Insight for First Generation and Minority Law Students and Graduates". In her spare time, she enjoys singing, Bollywood Zumba and African dance, dragon boat racing, and writing poetry and short stories.
Practice Area(s)
Other
Education
Rutgers Law School
