Tré never stopped praying. Even when the virus ravaged his sweet mother’s lungs in a matter of days this summer. Or when her casket was lowered into the soil three weeks after her 50th birthday. He never lost what Cindy Dawkins taught her four babies to hold tightest to: the belief that all things work […]
Author Archives: Rita Omokha
Rita Omokha is an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she graduated top of her 2020 class, receiving some of the institution's highest awards, including the Pulitzer Prizes’ Traveling Fellowship, the Lynton Foundation Award in Book Writing and the Bill Campbell Award.
She’s an award-winning independent journalist whose writing on race and culture has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Elle, The Daily Beast, Glamour, Teen Vogue, USA TODAY, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, WIRED, among others; her reporting has been featured on major networks such as CNN. Omokha’s enterprise projects include Elle’s America Redefined and Vanity Fair’s They Were Sons, which examine race in America and police violence against communities of color.
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.