Olamide Olaniyan is associate editor at The Tyee.
After joining as editorial assistant in 2019, he became founding editor of The Tyee's federal election newsletter The Run, which won a Digital Publishing Award in 2020. Olaniyan also writes about culture and politics, and has interviewed big thinkers like Harsha Walia, Rinaldo Walcott and Naomi Klein.
He lives in Vancouver, where he studied economics and political science at the University of British Columbia, and got his start in journalism working at the student newspaper, the Ubyssey, and the campus radio station, CiTR. He previously worked as an editorial fellow at Canadaland. Follow him on X @olapalooza.