Rita Omokha

Rita Omokha is an award-winning Nigerian-American journalist who writes about politics and vulnerable communities. Her research, writing, and commentary have been featured in several publications and outlets, including CNN, Cosmopolitan, The Daily Beast, Elle, Glamour, The Guardian, MSNBC, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, and WIRED. 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. Her reporting and investigations have been recognized by the Livingston Award, Education Writers Association, Society of Professional Journalists, and the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma Reporting, among others. Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America is her critically acclaimed debut book, released in November 2024. Her reporting will focus on how emerging technologies and the policies and power structures behind them are reshaping the lives of marginalized communities in ways that often go unnoticed, unregulated, and unchallenged.