Adaobi NKEOKELONYE is a development professional with experience in reproductive health and HIV/AIDS prevention projects. She has worked with Action Aid Nigeria's ENR project as a Rapportuer. She has been a UNICEF Resource Person (Trainer) on life-building skills training for several States Youth Resource Centres in Nigeria. Before then, she had been a Programme Officer, Youth-to Youth Initiative, Lagos.

Miss Nkeokelonye obtained a BA degree in English Language from the University of Lagos where she later obtained an Advanced Diploma in Marketing. She also holds a Post-graduate Diploma in Social Work (PGDSW) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Most of all, she holds a Masters Degree from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton ,United Kingdom.