Ijeoma Oluo

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ijeoma Oluo
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Dec 30, 1980(1980-12-30)
Age	44
Birthplace	Denton
Country	United States
Birth City	Texas
Horoscope	Capricorn

Ijeoma Oluo Biography

Ijeoma Oluo is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on December 30, 1980 in Denton, Texas, United States. American writer and novelist who is best recognized for her book So You Want to Talk About Race which was a New York Times Best-Seller. Her writing often focuses on race and identity, feminism, and social and mental health and has also been published in The Washington Post, NBC News, and Elle Magazine.

For her Badass Feminist Coloring Book, she illustrated the portraits of several of her favorite feminists including Kimya Dawson, Hari Kondabolu, and Lindy West.

Ijeoma Oluo (born 1980) is an American writer. She is the author of So You Want to Talk About Race and has written for The Guardian, Jezebel, The Stranger, Medium and The Establishment, where she is also an editor-at-large.

Ijeoma Oluo began her career in technology and digital marketing. She turned to writing in her mid-30s after the 2012 death of Trayvon Martin, who was at the same age of her son, Malcolm, at the time. Fearful for her son as well as her younger brother, a musician then traveling on tour, Oluo began sharing long-held concerns via a blog she’d previously devoted to food writing. She has described these initial forays as a significant influence on her writing style, as she hoped that sharing personal stories would be a way to connect to and activate her predominantly white community in Seattle. Oluo has said she was disappointed by the response she initially received, and that many of her existing friends “fell away” instead of engaging in the issues she had begun raising; however, many black women she hadn’t previously known reached out to express appreciation and Oluo’s profile as a writer grew, with publications asking to reprint work from her blog and eventually commissioning new writing.

She was born and raised in Denton, Texas but later settled in Seattle, Washington. She has a younger brother named Ahamefule J. Oluo who is a jazz musician.

Ijeoma Oluo Net Worth

Ijeoma Oluo is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ijeoma Oluo 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She graduated from Western Washington University in 2007 and started her career in technology and digital marketing before turning to writing in 2012 after the death of Trayvon Martin. She went on to self-publish her first book The Badass Feminist Coloring Book in 2015.

She has won several awards and honors for her writing including the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award by the American Humanist Society.

Ijeoma Oluo was born in Denton, Texas on (1980-12-30 ) December 30, 1980. Her father, Samuel Lucky Onwuzip Oluo, is from Nigeria, and her mother, Susan Jane Hawley, is from Kansas and is white. Oluo’s younger brother is jazz musician Ahamefule J. Oluo, who is married to Seattle writer Lindy West. Ijeoma Oluo was married to Chad R. Jacobson from 2001 to 2005, with whom the first of her two children was born. She graduated from Western Washington University with a BA in political science in 2007.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Ijeoma Oluo Dating?

According to our records, Ijeoma Oluo married to Chad R. Jacobson. As of December 1, 2023, Ijeoma Oluo’s is not dating anyone.

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Oluo’s Facebook account was temporarily suspended in 2017. She had made a joke on Twitter that she felt uncomfortable around “white folk in cowboy hats” the first time she went in a Cracker Barrel. In response, she received hundreds of threats and racist messages on Twitter and to her Facebook account. Twitter took down tweets and banned users who were breaking its terms of service, but Oluo said Facebook did nothing for three days. Her account was suspended after Oluo posted screenshots of the messages, saying Facebook was not doing anything to help. Facebook later apologized and reactivated her account, saying the suspension had been a mistake. Oluo said the Facebook accounts of several other black activists have been suspended after publicly posting screenshots of threatening messages they had received, and each time Facebook said it was a mistake.

Facts & Trivia

Ijeoma Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Ijeoma Oluo celebrates birthday on December 30 of every year.

Oluo stopped writing for The Stranger in July 2017; her reasons included the paper’s decision to publish an article on detransitioning that Olou said was “written by a cis woman without the knowledge and language necessary to responsibly report on the subject in a way that would not feed into the narrative of anti-trans bigots. The piece quotes a doctor widely discredited for junk science, with a well-known anti-trans bias.” Though Oluo has taken strong stands on many social issues, she has also said fans should be comfortable criticizing and speaking honestly about errors such as expressions of sexism, racism, or classism by their favorite celebrities, without having to condemn or reject anyone as irredeemable, and that we ourselves generally share many of the same flaws we call out in others. She wrote in 2015 that, “Being anti-racist doesn’t mean that you are never racist, it means that you recognize and battle racism in yourself as hard as you battle it in others”, and she expanded on this general theme of honest dialog about uncomfortable truths in her 2018 book, writing that, “This does not mean that you have to flog yourself for all eternity.”

Top Facts about Ijeoma Oluo

1. Ijeoma Oluo is a Nigerian-American writer and speaker.
2. She has written two books: “So You Want to Talk About Race” and “Mediocre.”
3. Oluo’s work focuses on issues of race, feminism, and social justice.
4. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, and TIME magazine.
5. Oluo has over 300k followers on Twitter (@IjeomaOluo).
6. In 2018, she was named one of the most influential people in Seattle by Seattle Magazine.
7. Oluo is a sought-after public speaker on topics related to race and social justice.
8. She has worked as an editor at large for The Establishment.
9. Oluo’s writing has been praised for its honesty and vulnerability.
10. Her work encourages readers to engage in difficult conversations about race and privilege.