Board Member

Kojo is a girl dad, attorney, educator, non-profit executive, and public servant. After graduating from the nation’s oldest law school, he began his career as a kindergarten teacher in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was ultimately named Teacher of the Year at his school site after just his second year of teaching. He later went on to serve as the founding principal of Greenwood Leadership Academy, an elementary school in North Tulsa.

In 2018, Kojo served as interim executive director at 36 Degrees North—Tulsa’s basecamp for entrepreneurs, startups and innovators—before making the decision to run for elected office. A year later, he launched his campaign for Congress in Oklahoma’s 1st District.

In 2020, he won the primary election to become the Democratic nominee—making him the youngest-ever Democratic nominee in the district, and the first-ever Ghanaian-American to win a major party nomination for federal office. Although he ultimately lost in the general election to the incumbent, he received 109,641 votes—the most votes by a Democrat in the district since 1984.

Kojo is now an attorney at Catholic Charities of Eastern Oklahoma, leading a project to attain asylum for over 200 Afghan families that were evacuated to Tulsa after the Taliban took over control of the country in August 2021, as well as representing all other clients seeking a legal pathway to residence and citizenship.

Kojo received his B.S. from Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA) in 2008, where he also served as student body president, and his J.D. from William & Mary Law School in 2012.