Adejoke Abiodun Lasisi

Adejoke LASISI is an African fabric designer and environmentalist. She is the founder of Planet 3R and Jokelinks Weaving School. She holds a bachelors degree in Economics from Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife. She also holds a certificate in Entrepreneurial Management from EDC Lagos, Nigeria. Adejoke is also saving the planet using her weaving skills by converting textile and plastic wastes into innovative products.

Adejoke enjoys volunteering in entrepreneurship activities both here in Nigeria and abroad. She is a 2016 Alumnus of the EDC Lagos/ Cherie Blair Foundation Road to Women’s Business Growth in Nigeria and a pioneer Cohort member of the YALI Regional Leadership Center West Africa Accra, Ghana 2015.

She is AYEEN 2014 Business Grant Winner, a recipient of the YALI SPIRIT AWARD at the YALI Regional Leadership Center West Africa Accra, Ghana in the Young African Leaders Initiative YALI 2015 and was the runner-up for Franco-Nigeria Chamber of Commerce grant competition in 2016. She was nominated as the best indigenous textile designer at the ACE Awards 2017 and 2018. She also emerges as one of Akin Alabi Business grant winners in 2017.

She is also a 7eleven foundation grant winner in 2017. She received a grant for light manufacturing through SMEDAN in 2018. She was nominated for the National MSME awards 2018 in Nigeria held at Aso-rock Abuja. She is a recipient of a GEM grant (World Bank partnered with the Federal government of Nigeria) and won the BlackKnightng grant in 2019. She also received a grant award from the Vice president of Nigeria through the NYEES platform held in May 2019 in Abuja. Adejoke emerged as one of the Top5 Nigeria Creative Business Cup 2019 Pitching Contests.

Also, she was certified in 2019 by First Technical University as a technical University trainer. She has showcased her products at various events and exhibitions both at home and abroad. Her work and her journey have been featured on ALJAZEERA, BBC, CHANNELS TV, TRIBUNE NEWSPAPER, PUNCH NEWSPAPER, NTA, TVC, NATIONS NEWSPAPER and some other popular blogs.

Her organization also emerged as one of the Top50 Big Bang Business Competition organized by the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UC Davis, USA. Adejoke emerged as the National MSME of the year 2020 for using her weaving skill to save the planet by converting Plastic and Textile wastes into Eco-friendly products.

She was also awarded by the President of Nigeria as one of the five young INNOVATORS at Aso villa Nigeria in 2020.
She won the Africa green grant award 2020 organized by Eleven Eleven Twelve Foundation. She was also listed and receive an award as one of the 60 most influential personalities in Ibadan. She was recently recognized by Ooni of Ife as one of the Southwest MSME Ambassadors in 2021.

Her aspirations are diverse, but her utmost goal is to uphold and preserve our cultural heritage, but also impact the knowledge of handwoven Fabrics into youths and women through entrepreneurial skill acquisition programs in Nigeria.