February 15, 2024
The afterschool instructor formerly known as Rachel Dolezal has been fired from her job for operating an OnlyFans account.
Rachel Dolezal, now a teacher working under the name Nkechi Diallo, has been fired from her job at Catalina Foothills School District due to an OnlyFans page linked to her social media page, News 12 Arizona reports.
Julie Farbarik, the district’s director of alumni & community relations, confirmed her removal in an email on Wednesday, February 14.
Diallo’s OnlyFans posts were deemed “contrary to our district’s ‘Use of Social Media by District Employees’ policy and our staff ethics policy,” Farbarik’s email stated.
The district only learned of Diallo’s OnlyFans page on Tuesday following a News 4 Tucson report about the controversy.
Explicit photos of Diallo were also found on other platforms, but it could not be confirmed whether she shared them. She was working at the school district as an afterschool instructor, KVOA reports.
Her termination comes 10 years after she was accused of misidentifying herself as Black while serving as an African Studies professor and the head of the NAACP in Spokane, Washington. After facing nationwide backlash, she eventually resigned from the positions and relocated to Arizona.
In 2016, she legally changed her name to a Nigerian phrase that means “gift of God,” KXLY reports. Diallo later clarified that she still intends to use the name Rachel Dolezal “as her public persona” but changed her name to have a better chance of landing work.
Last year, she appeared at a signing ceremony with Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs for an executive order banning racial discrimination based on a person’s hair. Known as the Crown Act, the law aims to safeguard workers against any form of discrimination arising from hairstyles associated with different racial backgrounds, including but not limited to braids, locs, twists, knots, and headwraps, both in workplace settings and public schools.
