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Ijeoma Oluo is a Seattle-based writer who has authored So You Want to Talk About Race and has written for several newspapers and online news platforms.

Background
Oluo is a regular writer for The Guardian. She has also contributed to Jezebel, The Stranger, Medium and The Establishment.

In 2015, she was named one of the most influential people in Seattle. Her writing covers misogynoir, intersectionality, online harassment, the Black Lives Matter movement, and social justice. She started writing after the murder of Trayvon Martin, who was at the same age of her son at the time. She self-published The Badass Feminist Coloring Book on September 8, 2015. She published So You Want to Talk About Race with Da Capo Press on January 16, 2018. Many of her articles have gone viral.