Rachel Dolezal, Former Official Who Pretended to Be Black for Years, Says She’s Changing Career to a Sex Coach
Rachel Dolezal, Former Official Who Pretended to Be Black for Years, Says She’s Changing Career to a Sex Coach
Bailey RichardsSun, September 13, 2026 at 6:29 PM UTC
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Nkechi Diallo, formerly Rachel Dolezal, in 2015; Nkechi Diallo announcing her new career as a sex coachCredit: Stephanie Keith/REUTERS; Nkechi Diallo/Instagram -
Rachel Dolezal, now known as Nkechi Diallo, said she is a certified sex coach with her own practice
She gained national attention in 2015 after being accused of lying about being Black, and she subsequently resigned from the NAACP
Diallo made headlines again in 2024 after she was fired from a teaching job when administrators found her OnlyFans
Nkechi Diallo, the woman formerly known as Rachel Dolezal, has switched careers.
The controversial former NAACP official — who sparked backlash in 2015 for identifying as Black, despite having two White parents — announced in an Instagram post on Saturday, Sept. 12, that she is now a “certified sex coach.”
Diallo, 48, shared the announcement after she graduated from the Sexology Institute, a company that offers a “comprehensive sex coach training” course, per its website.
She also wrote in her post that she has her own “online intimacy and relationship coaching practice” called Bandwidth, which is now accepting new clients.
The Sexology Institute did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on Sunday, Sept. 13.
Nkechi Diallo, formerly Rachel Dolezal, announces she is now a ‘certified sex coach’Credit: Nkechi Diallo/Instagram
“Certified. I did it! Woohoo, my office is open!” Diallo wrote in text over a slideshow of several photos of herself in a black graduation cap and gown, red stole and fishnet tights.
In the snapshots, soundtracked by “Pomp and Circumstance,” she smiled while holding a desk nameplate with her name and new job title.
“The cap & gown🎓and a new title! 💋,” the former NAACP official wrote in her post’s caption, in part.
Diallo went on to share more about her new career, writing, “This work is personal. As a single mom of three boys, I know what hypervigilance, burnout and carrying the mental load do to connection — and I believe joy, closeness, and aliveness in your body aren’t luxuries. They’re capacities we can design, develop and expand.”
“Bandwidth is for the people who’ve poured into everyone else: single parents, parents of neurodivergent kids and folks whose work lives at the margins,” she continued. “Together we clear the static, make room for what matters, and expand your bandwidth for a life that’s authored — not absent or performed. Make room for what matters.”
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Diallo’s latest career change comes over a decade after she gained national attention when she was accused of lying about her race after claiming she was Black, when she was actually born to a White mother and father.
Her parents, Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, first outed her to local media, telling Spokane newspaper The Spokesman-Review in June 2015 that their daughter started to “disguise herself” after her family adopted four Black children.
At the time, Diallo vehemently denied the accusations, telling The Spokesman-Review, in part, “There’s a lot of complexities … and I don’t know that everyone would understand that.”
As controversy swirled in the wake of her parents’ revelation, Diallo doubled down on her claims and continued to state that she identified as Black, resigned as president of her chapter of the NAACP, and she also lost her part-time teaching job at Eastern Washington University.
Rachel Dolezal in 2015Credit: Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review/AP
“[I lost] friends and the jobs and the work and — oh, my God — so much at the same time,” Diallo told Vanity Fair that July.
In the same interview, Diallo said she didn’t think she deceived anyone. “If people feel misled or deceived, then sorry that they feel that way, but I believe that’s more due to their definition and construct of race in their own minds than it is to my integrity or honesty, because I wouldn’t say I’m African American, but I would say I’m Black, and there’s a difference in those terms,” she told the publication.
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Diallo legally changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo in 2017, per Reuters.
During an appearance on Today, the former NAACP chapter president said she made the alteration “in order to be seen for my qualifications and experience rather than just seen for the tabloid publicity that I got in 2015.”
In February 2024, Diallo once again drew national attention when she was fired from a different teaching job in Arizona after administrators found her OnlyFans account, which included posts that violated school district employee policy.
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