Dayo Olopade

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Dayo Olopade is the Washington correspondent for The Root, a Washington Post-owned website devoted to politics and culture from a black perspective. She is also a contributing writer at Double X, another Slate Group site. Previously she worked as a reporter-researcher at The New Republic, where she covered race, religion, energy policy and Chicago politics during Campaign 2008. She graduated with honors from Yale University in 2007, where she studied the evolution and development of print media in Sub-Saharan Africa, and was the editor of the Yale Literary Magazine. She was also awarded the Adrian Van Sinderen Book Collecting Prize, for her collection of writings from the black Atlantic. Her work has appeared in print and online at The Root, The New Republic, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The American Prospect, Transition Magazine, Slate, and The Washington Post.

As a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation, Ms. Olopade will focus on the intersection of race, class and religion in American political life, as well as how modernizing conceptions of each impact the urban space.

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