BERNICE ADEBIMPE OYELEKE – SYNW YOUNG WRITER OF THE MONTH (AUGUST 2020)
Bernice Adebimpe Oyeleke was born on the 11th September, 1989 into the family of Pastor and Mrs L.A. Adekeye. She is the third child out of four children the union was blessed with.
She had her primary education at Adesola Nursery and Primary School, Alakuko, Lagos State. She proceeded to Ebenezer Comprehensive High School, Ijaiye Ojokoro where she completed both her junior and senior secondary school education.
She became deaf while awaiting the junior WAEC through the illness , Meningitis, she suffered from in June, 2002. Nevertheless, she carried on with her secondary education at the same regular school and completed it in 2005.
She commenced her first degree program at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan in September, 2007. She studied Special Education / Chemistry. She graduated with a CGPA of 6.7/7 as a first class graduate.
She had her masters degree on VC scholarship as a university scholar at the same University of Ibadan.
In 2014, she took up a Federal government appointment as Education officer under Federal Ministry of Education.
She got married to her heartthrob on Thursday, 3rd September, 2015.
She serves as National Treasurer of Deaf Teachers Association of Nigeria since 2015 till date. She also serves the same association in the capacity of Chairperson of School Competition Planning Committee.
She initiated the Deaf Nigerians Profile in September 2019, a medium through which she enlightens people about deafness, deaf education and sign language awareness through publishing interviews with people who are deaf but successful.
She founded Luminous Deaf Scholastic Initiative in 2019 to contribute to the development of Deaf education in Nigeria. The NGO has floated some educational and novel programs till date.
She writes for Inclusive news network on people with disabilities issues. She is the author of the novel, LUMINOUS, an eBook available for free download via selar.co/luminousbk.
She has facilitated in both virtual and physical program with Deaf students mostly as audience.
As a research student she has some papers on Deaf education to her credit.
