President / Founder

Tinuade (Tinu) Akinshola is an attorney with extensive years of corporate transactional and policy working experience that cuts across diverse sectors including small business, contract compliance, community development, public procurement, business investigation, immigration, international human rights, social/gender justice and equity, legal compliance, and international business transactions. She holds an LL.B, BL, LL.M, and an SEP Certificates. Also, she is a Licensed Attorney with bar admissions in the District of Columbia, State of Maryland (inactive), New York State, and Nigeria.

Mrs. Akinshola began her gender justice and equity advocacy career as a Victims’ Advocate and Court Companion of one of Maryland’s non-profit organization that provides crisis intervention services, as well as emergency shelter for victims (usually women) and their children. She later worked as the Program Coordinator for one of local District of Columbia’s Advisory Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect through a non-profit organization that worked to eliminate child abuse and neglect. Both locally and globally especially in developing countries, Tinu would initiate, organize, coordinate, speak, counsel, defend, mentor, and moderate several female/youth/minority’s economic, education, leadership empowerment related and crisis forums, seminars, workshops and conferences in furtherance of her advocacy passion and interest. 

Tinu Akinshola is the Founder and President of She Rises Int’l, Inc., an organization that proactively advocate for gender justice and equity in the locally (U.S.) and throughout the developing world. She served as the Legal Sector Chair of the African Union’s former Pan African Diaspora Women Association (PADWA) under the Leadership of Her Excellency Arikhana Chihombori-Quao. Tinu is currently an Executive Board Member of African Diaspora Development Initiative (ADDI), as well as a Member of the Nigerian American Lawyers Association (NALA) for which she served as the Association’s first Law Students President.

Tinu continues to support and collaborate with various agencies and organizations that represent, assist, and advocate for women, children, and less privileged rights for education, empowerment, social/gender equality and justice programs and activities. She is married and blessed with two amazing children.