Award-Winning Nigerian American Journalist; Author of "Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America"
Rita Omokha Biography
Rita Omokha is an award-winning Nigerian American journalist and author of "Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America."
Her writing on politics, race, and vulnerable communities has been featured on CNN and in Cosmopolitan, The Daily Beast, Elle, Glamour, The Guardian, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, and WIRED, among other publications and outlets.
She has written about policing in America, federal inaction on growing numbers of COVID orphans, and missing and murdered Indigenous women.
She's an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she graduated at the top of the 2020 class, receiving some of the institution’s highest awards, including the Pulitzer Prize Traveling Fellowship.
During her time at Columbia, she served as co-president of the African Student Association, which spotlighted the intersection of journalism, press freedom, and the African diaspora. She previously worked in digital media for CNN, NBC, and Viacom and served in AmeriCorps in 2013.
SELECT HONORS AND AWARDS Livingston Award, national reporting finalist Education Writers Association, features award Society of Professional Journalists, features award Dart Award for Trauma Reporting Columbia University, Bill Campbell award Columbia University, Pulitzer Prizes Traveling Fellowship Columbia University, Lynton Foundation book writing award
Omokha lives in New York City. She was born and spent her early childhood in Benin City, Edo State.
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Rita Omokha Videos
How to Resist with Rita Omokha & Kimberly Atkins Stohr
In this episode of Justice by Design Kimberly Atkins Stohr engages with journalist and author Rita Omokha.
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