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Rita Omokha is an award-winning Nigerian American writer and journalist in New York City. Her work on politics, race, and vulnerable communities has been featured in Cosmopolitan, The Daily Beast, Elle, Glamour, The Guardian, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, and WIRED, among other publications and outlets.

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She has written about policing in America, federal inaction on growing numbers of COVID orphans, and missing and murdered indigenous women. 

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She's taught 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’s Traveling Fellowship.

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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. Omokha previously worked in digital media for CNN, NBC and Viacom and served in AmeriCorps in 2013.

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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

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