Folu joined TSIC as an Analyst after working at Redstone Strategy Group, a philanthropic consulting firm in the United States. She started her career as a Human Resources Program Analyst at BlackRock, where she completed rotations in the People Operations department, and supported a project on reforming the global Sickness Leave policy. Folu currently sits on the board of trustees at SIEVEMK Gateway, a community-based nonprofit that provides affordable tuition and mentorship opportunities to racial minorities in her hometown of Milton Keynes.

She holds a BA from the University of Cambridge in Human, Social, and Political Sciences. At Cambridge, Folu founded a social enterprise providing online careers support to disadvantaged students, which was selected for the 2020/21 Innovate UK Young Innovators Award. As a volunteer at the Cambridge Development Initiative, Folu spent a summer in Dar es Salaam working alongside Tanzanian students to provide entrepreneurial resources to young people. She also worked on a research team at the Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning, where she developed recommendations for improving the academic and welfare support offered to Black students at the university.