Adam has a BA in Politics from the University of Nottingham, where he was a member of the BME Committee and the NUS Black Students’ Campaign. During this time, he was also a youth worker in Radford, Nottingham. In 2010 he completed an MSc in Globalisation & Development at the London School of Oriental & African Studies. Adam has carried out academic research for the University of Nottingham and Goldsmith's, University of London. He has also worked as a writer/researcher at Independent Academic Research Studies, the Greater London Authority, Race on the Agenda, Voice of Africa Radio, the Institute of Race Relations and Free Radicals.