| State Representative Segun Adeyina was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in
November 2022. He represents the citizens of District 110, which includes portions of Gwinnett
County.
Before serving in the state legislature, Segun was a representative for the Gwinnett County Tree
Advisory Committee. An active executive member of the Gwinnett County Democratic Party,
Rep. Adeyina was previously a 2020 Democratic candidate for District 1 of the Gwinnett County
School Board. He is currently the executive director of the Nigerian American Public Advisory
Committee U.S.A., where he works to promote voter education and registration in immigrant
communities. Additionally, he played a key role in the recent 2021 U.S. presidential election and
U.S. Senate elections in Georgia through his involvement in One Voice Africa. He is a member
of the Gwinnett NAACP, Global African Business Association and served on the boards of
several community and business organizations, including the Nigerians in Diaspora Organization
Americas and African World Expo.
He has won several awards and received recognition for his volunteer and philanthropic efforts.
Most recently, Segun received the United States Presidents Lifetime Achievement Award in
2022 and the Sirius Rising Start Award from the Georgia Plastic Foundation. He has also been
recognized by 100 Black Men for serving as a mentor for seven years with Big Brothers and Big
Sisters. He received the 2019 Mothers on a Mission-12th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Drum
Major Award, as well as the 2019 Global Black History Honors Honoree for leadership in the
community.
For more than 25 years, he has worked in IT program and project management for Fortune 500
companies across multiple industries, including General Motors, Ascension Health System and
Hewlett Packard/ Cap Gemini. Segun is married to Kofo and has three children. |