Rachel Dolezal, the woman who sparked international outrage by claiming she was Black, is on the verge of launching a new career as a certified sex coach, according to the Daily Mail.
Dolezal, who now goes by the name Nkechi Diallo, revealed that she has nearly completed 300 hours of training toward her certification. She expressed a desire to help single mothers and busy parents improve their sex lives.
A Long and Notorious History
Dolezal was fired from a teaching position in Arizona in 2024 after it was discovered that she had an OnlyFans account featuring explicit photos of herself wearing Rihanna's lingerie line.
Her most infamous episode occurred in 2014, when she was accused of falsely identifying as Black while serving as the head of the NAACP in Spokane, Washington. At the time, she was a well-known civil rights activist and African studies professor at Eastern Washington University. Critics alleged that she pretended to be Black to gain advantages among fellow activists and academics. The ensuing backlash, particularly from African Americans, forced her resignation.
2015 Interview
In a 2015 interview with The Guardian, Dolezal described growing up in a strict fundamentalist Christian household where she claimed she was physically punished for failing to meet her parents' expectations. She recounted boarding with a family of African-American activists as a young woman and a failed marriage to an African-American man, with whom she had a son. Throughout the interview, she insisted that she was a Black woman.
“For me, how I feel is more powerful than how I was born. I mean that not in the sense of having some easy way out. This has been a lifelong journey. This is not something that I cash in, cash out, change up, do at a convenience level or to freak people out or to make people happy,” she told The Guardian. “If somebody asked me how I identify, I identify as black. Nothing about whiteness describes who I am.”
Dolezal's latest career move marks another chapter in her tumultuous public life, as she seeks to reinvent herself yet again.
