Toluse Olorunnipa

Toluse "Tolu" Olorunnipa (Toe-Loo Oh-lo-roon-NEE-pa) is a Nigerian-American journalist and political commentator. He is the first reporter of native African and Nigerian descent to cover the White House.^[1] Of Yoruba heritage, Olorunnipa was named the White House Bureau Chief for The Washington Post in July 2022.^[2]

Toluse Olorunnipa
Alma mater	Stanford University (BA, MSc)
Occupation(s)	Journalist; political commentator
Notable work	His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Website	toluse.com

Education

Olorunnipa earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and MSc from Stanford University.^[3] In college, Olorunnipa wrote for The Stanford Daily.

Career

Olorunnipa writes for The Washington Post and is an analyst for CNN.^[4] He previously worked for Bloomberg News and The Miami Herald.^[5][6][7] His columns have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Tampa Bay Times, The Seattle Times, The Nation, and others.^[8] He has been featured as a panelist on Washington Week and Face the Nation, and frequently appears on CNN, MSNBC, CBS News, and C-SPAN as a political analyst.

In 2022 he coauthored the biography about George Floyd His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice with journalist Robert Samuels.^[9][10] The book was a finalist for the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction^[11] and the winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.^[12]