As an educator, researcher, and advocate, her objective is to support education stakeholders to create more equitable learning spaces that lead to improved and holistic culturally responsive student outcomes. Within the Nigerian education context, her experience revolves around localizing and adapting the Sustainable Development Goals that relate to education (SDG 4.1a). She had worked with Evans & Associates in developing Nigeria’s draft National Reading Framework (NRF) and with Management Systems International on Piloting the Policy Linking Methodology for the Hausa Language. As an Education reform strategist and systems strengthening specialist, she is an expert at analyzing social systems from a social justice perspective and creating effective people-centered interventions that weave in research evidence, social justice, and African-centered perspectives into system-wide policy design and social programming. 

Within the community, Chizoba is a passionate advocate for anti-colonial approaches to international development, public education reform in Africa, and transformative youth engagement. Chizoba has given numerous lectures in these areas including a TED Talk on historical consciousness as a precondition for education justice. Chizoba is also the founder of Unveiling Africa, a non-profit that currently provides a platform for Africans and non-Africans to learn about African and global history from an African-centered perspective.  For her policy-community practice and academic scholarship, Chizoba has received numerous awards including the 2021 Ernest D. Morrel African Diaspora Emerging Scholar Award, 2019 Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award, and 2018 African Scholars Emerging Award, amongst others.