Kemi Areke is a MBA Candidate at Columbia Business School with a focus in Real Estate/Finance.

Before Columbia Business School she held a Capital Markets Position in Real Estate Private Equity and started her career in Futures & Options Electronic Trading at JP Morgan. She graduated Northwestern University with a B.A. in Philosophy.

Along with being a full time student she is also a full time agency signed model who has appeared in Vogue, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, and Elle.

She has past fundraising experience from her role at The Praedium Group (Private Equity) and from fundraising for almost half a decade for the New York Junior League.