Black Excellence: Jordan Adeyemi
Clark student’s nonprofit has plenty of sole
Jordan Adeyemi ’28 has been working for the last four years to channel his love of soccer into community service by co-founding and operating a nonprofit that donates new and gently used sports shoes to underserved youth.
Adeyemi and his 14-year-old brother Jason launched The Shoeless Ones in 2020 to deliver shoes to young people in the Atlanta area, where they grew up. The brothers made special donations of shoes to youth in the United Kingdom and in Nigeria in 2021, and Adeyemi hopes to have a more global reach in the future.