Rachel Dolezal, the woman who stoked controversy by claiming she was Black, is close to starting a career as a sex coach , according to theDaily Mail.
Dolezal, who now goes by the name Nkechi Diallo , said she’s nearly completed 300 hours toward her certified sex coach qualification, adding she would like to help single moms and busy parents improve their sex lives.
A long, notorious history
Dolezal was fired from a teaching job in Arizona in 2024 after people there learned she had an OnlyFans account and racy photos of her posing in Rihanna’s lingerie line started to surface online.
Her most notorious public episode came in 2014, when she was accused of misidentifying herself as Black while serving as the head of the NAACP in Spokane, Wash. She was a well-known civil rights activist and African studies professor at Eastern Washington University. She was accused of pretending to be Black to gain favour and opportunities among fellow activists and academics. The massive online backlash, particularly from African Americans, prompted her to resign.
2015 interview
In a 2015 interview withThe Guardian, Dolezal described being brought up in a strict fundamentalist Christian household where she claimed she was physically punished for not meeting her parents’ standards. She would recount boarding with a family of African-American activists as a young woman and a failed marriage to an African-American man that produced a son. Most of all, she continued to insist 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 toldThe Guardian. “If somebody asked me how I identify, I identify as black. Nothing about whiteness describes who I am.”
