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Rita Omokha
Rita Omokha is an award-winning Nigerian American journalist in New York City.
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.