Sade Shofidiya is a Savannah State University graduate from Chicago, Illinois. She’s passionate about helping communities, environmental stewardship, and interdisciplinary research with education backgrounds in Information Technology, Psychology, Business Administration, and Accounting. She is also the founder of Foster Beelief, a honeybee and environmental justice charity as well as BEEnevolent, an environmental technology firm. She is a 2022 Verizon Forward for Good Challenge Alum and a 2022 Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow.

In 2021 she received a 30 Under 30 Award from the Atlanta Young Nonprofit Professionals  Network. She was also nominated for the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. She received the 2020 World Trade Center Association’s Peace Through Trade Award for Foster Beelief’s Educational Outreach Program fulfilling 7 of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. In 2018 she was a White House Initiative on HBCUs Competitiveness Scholar. 2017-2019 she was a U.S. Department of Transportation Dwight D. Eisenhower Fellow and conducted original research on automation, distracted driving, and MaaS.