Toluse “Tolu” Olorunnipa is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and entrepreneur who works as a staff writer for The Atlantic. Previously, he was the White House Bureau Chief for the Washington Post.
He is the co-author of His Name is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and a finalist for the National Book Award, LA Times Book Award and Lukas Prize. He has edited several books and also wrote a personal finance guide for Millennials navigating the Great Recession.
His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, The Chicago Tribune, Businessweek Magazine, The Miami Herald, The Tampa Bay Times, the Tallahassee Democrat and other publications. As a White House correspondent covering the last four presidencies, he has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, PBS, CBS News, NPR, Bloomberg, C-SPAN and other outlets.
Toluse studied sociology at Stanford University, has been an adjunct professor at Northwestern University and has spoken across the country on a wide variety of issues.
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