Philanthropy journalist and culture writer in Los Angeles and New York City.
Moderating Black Climate Week Panel on "Solidarity Philanthropy" at Bridgid Coulter Cheadle's Blackbird House in Culver City, CA Feb 2023
Staff Writer - Inside Philanthropy
As a philanthropy journalist for Inside Philanthropy, Ade has profiled major donors across Wall Street, Silicon Valley, Hollywood and sports, including Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark, Wall Street billionaires Leon Cooperman and Robert F. Smith, NBA power couple Stephen and Ayesha Curry, actress Selena Gomez, comedian host Trevor Noah, and members of the Disney family. Ade has also been working on a series of profiles about the many forms of family philanthropy in partnership with National Center for Family Philanthropy (NCFP) and co-authored a white paper on the state of athlete and celebrity giving. A selection of his writing is featured in a new Inside Philanthropy anthology, now out on Amazon and Kindle.
Culture Writer - Various
As a freelance culture writer, Ade’s work has included exploring the origins of black basketball for CBS News, giving his hot take on respectability politics for Newsweek, diving into suburbia, or the lack thereof, in video games for VICE, and doing an oral history with Warren G (“Regulate”) for the 30th anniversary Above the Rim OST for SPIN. He covered a 2024 Grammy Weekend event for GRAMMY.com. He is an approved Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer Critic through his blog.
Content Writer - Various
Ade works as a content writer for Accuweather. He has also written for an MSN-syndicated lifestyle blog and for a cybersecurity brand. He authored Currently Los Angeles’ daily weather newsletter with veteran meteorologist Eric Holthaus — staying true to his lifelong love of all things weather.
Recent Writing
The New Republic - Climate Change is Killing the Myth of Los Angeles
GQ - The Best Thanksgiving Video Games of All Time (and the Worst)
Epic Games Store - The creepiest corners of non-horror games
Inside Philanthropy - Common Sense: Rapper Common Talks Philanthropy
Accuweather - What does it take to hit 100? The long road to triple-digit heat in U.S. cities
SPIN - From Compton to the Grammys: The Untold Story of ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’
Inside Philanthropy - Trevor Noah’s Philanthropy: Betting Big on Teachers, Students and South Africa’s Future
Rolling Stone - 20 Years Ago, ‘Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas’ Perfectly Recreated Nineties Los Angeles
Inside Philanthropy - Eat. Learn. Play. A Sitdown with Stephen and Ayesha Curry on Giving Back
The Ink - Marianne Williamson on trials and tribulations, signs and wonders
Grammy.com - Warren G Revisits 'Regulate: The G-Funk Era': How The 1994 Album Paved The Way For West Coast Hip-Hop's Dominance
Accuweather- Santa Ana winds: facts and fiction
WIRED - Lo-Fi Weather Channel Videos Are Soothing Climate Fears on YouTube
Accuweather- What explains this week's Southern California scorcher? In part, a phenomenon called 'seasonal lag'
Prism- DNA breakthroughs in the Tulsa Race Massacre invite new possibilities—and old questions
Inside Philanthropy - The Blank Family Foundation Reflects on the Past, Plans the Next Generation of Giving
SPIN - Above the Rim at 30: Warren G and More on Making Hip-Hop’s Best Film Soundtrack
Epic Games Store - Neil Jones tells us about his “Afro-Medieval” Follow-up, Aerial_Knight’s We Never Yield
Recent Appearances
Interviewed by Phoenix NPR affiliate, KJZZ
Profiled by Riverdale Country School Quad alumni magazine
WGN Radio Podcast appearance talking about the Black Fives Era of basketball [starts at 5:48]
CIRV'N IT RAW: Ep. 35 - Ade Adeniji: The Unsung Hook Singers of '90s Rap Classics, Top 5, + more [Apple Podcasts]
Philanthropy: adea@insidephilanthropy.com
Everything Else: derek.adeniji@gmail.com