Dr. Ayo Sekai is a native of Jamaica, West Indies, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where she attended High School and her formative PostSecondary College Years. As a researcher, she is a Political Scientist and Linguist with a specialization in Black Politics and International Relations. Dr. Sekai obtained her Bachelor's Degree in English from the State University College at Buffalo. She continued her higher educational pursuit and earned her Master's Degree in the Institute of Latin America and The Caribbean at the University of South Florida and her Ph.D. at Howard University in the Department of Political Science.

Dr. Sekai examines how language is used to impact political agenda, rhetoric, and policies that later become regulated through the legal system, therefore perpetuating policing of the Black body, inequity, inequality, and marginalization, based on race, across the Global South, through an international lens of the Black Diaspora. Specifically, she focuses on Linguistic Imperialism, Dog Whistle Politics on the basis of White Fragility within the framework of Robert Philipson and Charles Mills, The Racial Contract. An important goal of her research is to contribute to the knowledge base of how words are used and her unique contribution to the "Nation within a Nation" paradigm as outlined in her dissertation, Linguistic Imperialism: The Rhetoric of Domination through the African American Lens (Denise Rosier).