Nkechi Diallo, formerly known as Rachel Dolezal.Photo:Nkechi Diallo/Instagram
Nkechi Diallo/Instagram
On Friday morning, the former NAACP official —who sparked controversy in 2015 for identifying as Blackdespite having two White parents — shared a smiling selfie on herInstagram Story.
“Keep on Living,” Diallo, 46, wrote alongside the photo.
In a separate post, Diallo directed her followers to her website where she sells her art, which includes paintings, sculptures and mixed-media works.
“People asked how they can support,” she wrote. “Show some love with an order from my art website.”
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On Tuesday, NBC affiliateKVOA broke newsthat Diallo was an employee at the Catalina Foothills School District in Tucson and that she was linked to an OnlyFans account. The outlet noted that explicit images appearing to be Diallo had also been shared on Reddit.
Julie Farbarik, a spokeswoman for the Catalina Foothills Unified School District #16, confirmed to PEOPLE in a statement on Wednesday that Diallo no longer worked for them.
Diallo’s Instagram account includes several mentions of her OnlyFans page, where she posts “creative content and [gives] fans a more intimate look into my life” for a $9.99 per month subscription fee. The link to the OnlyFans account includes the name Rachel Dolezal.
She was hired as an after-school instructor in Aug. 2023, per theArizona Daily Star, which reported that the contract was set to run through May 24, 2024.
Farbarik told the outlet that Diallo was a part-time after-school extended-day instructor for the Community Schools Program and that she worked with students in the K-5 grade levels. “She was also a substitute with Educational Services Inc., our contracted substitute provider,” Farbarik said.
In November 2015, Dialloadmitted onThe Realthat she was “biologically born White to White parents, but I identify as Black” and that she began identifying herself as Black in 2006. She also published a memoir,In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black & White World.
Diallolegally changed her namein 2017.Reutersreported she changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo, citing court records.
During an appearance onToday, she said that she “felt like I needed to change my legal name in order to be seen for my qualifications and experience rather than just seen for the tabloid publicity that I got in 2015.”
She added, “When applying for a job, people were just seeing ‘Rachel Dolezal’ and not paying attention to the wide-ranging experience and qualifications that I do have.”
source: people.com
