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Biography

Faith Adiele is an award-winning writer and professor originally from Eastern Washington, who speaks, teaches, performs, and mentors around the globe.

Faith Adiele - The Open Center

The daughter of a Nigerian freedom fighter and a Nordic-American student, she was born in a Home for Unwed Mothers in Spokane, Washington and raised on her white grandparents’ farm in the Yakima Valley.

Ms. Adiele’s two memoirs are The Nigerian-Nordic Girl’s Guide to Lady Problems and Meeting Faith: The Thai Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun, an account of ordaining as Thailand’s first Black Buddhist nun that won the PEN Open Book Award.

Her media credits include two episodes of recent HBO-Max series A World of Calm, Sleep Stories for the Calm app and the PBS documentary My Journey Home, about finding her father and siblings in Nigeria.

Educated at Harvard University, the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Ms.

Adiele is co-editor of Coming of Age Around the World Faith Adiele - Calm | LinkedIn XYGI