MWAP Lunch-01MAY2025-Mayor Yemi Mobolade

Blessing “Yemi” Mobolade, the 42nd mayor of Colorado Springs, is also the first black man, immigrant and one of the youngest mayors elected. Having moved here in 2010 and starting a church as part of the Christian Missionary Alliance, he also invested in downtown Colorado Springs cofounding The Wild Goose Meeting House in 2013, his first restaurant.

Mobolade also worked as the director of outreach and engagement at First Presbyterian Church and co-founded COSILoveYou, uniting more than 100 area churches in serving the Colorado Springs community. In 2017, Mobolade co-founded Good Neighbors Meeting House as an additional gathering place in the downtown area. Leveraging his success as an entrepreneur and business owner, he began working as the vice president of business retention and expansion at the Colorado Springs Chamber & Economic Development Corporation.

In 2019, Mobolade served the City as a small business development administrator. In this role, he established tools to assist entrepreneurs with starting a business, COSOpenForBiz.com and Permit Partner, and led many collaborative efforts across the community’s public and private sectors.

Mobolade was born in Nigeria to two bi-vocational pastors. At age 17, he immigrated to the United State, to pursue the American Dream through education. He has bachelor’s degrees in business administration and computer information systems from Bethel University (Mishawaka, Ind.) and master’s degrees in management and leadership from Indiana Wesleyan University (Marion, Ind.) and theology-intellectual leadership from the A.W. Tozer Theological Seminary, part of Simpson University (Redding, Calif.).

He lives in Colorado Springs with his wife, Abbey, a nurse and nursing educator, and their three young children.