Nkechi Diallo has announced a new professional venture, revealing on social media that she has completed certification as a sex coach and launched an online practice focused on intimacy and relationship guidance.
The 48-year-old posted photographs to Instagram on Saturday, September 12, showing herself in graduation regalia alongside a desk nameplate identifying her as a certified sex coach. Diallo stated she finished a program exceeding 300 hours at The Sexology Institute and has established a coaching practice called Bandwidth.
Diallo remains a polarizing public figure, having gained widespread notoriety in 2015 when her parents publicly revealed she was not Black despite her years-long claims to that identity. She previously served as president of a local NAACP chapter and worked as a college instructor before resigning from both positions amid the controversy.
In her announcement about the coaching practice, Diallo described the work as deeply personal, connecting it to her experiences raising three sons as a single mother.
"This work is personal," Diallo wrote in the Instagram post, according to Us Weekly. "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."
She characterized Bandwidth as serving individuals who have devoted significant energy to caring for others, specifically identifying single parents, parents of neurodivergent children, and those whose professional lives exist at societal margins. The practice aims to help clients create space for meaningful connection and expand their capacity for what Diallo termed an authored life rather than one that is absent or performed.
The Instagram post included images of Diallo wearing a black graduation cap and gown with a red stole and black fishnet tights, as well as a professional photograph for her new business.
Diallo's career trajectory has been marked by repeated upheaval since 2015, when her parents, Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, spoke to The Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane and disclosed that their daughter had been misrepresenting her racial identity. According to the parents' account at that time, Diallo began altering her appearance after adopting four Black children.
Following the revelations, Diallo resigned from her position as president of her NAACP chapter and lost her part-time teaching position at Eastern Washington University. She maintained her stance in subsequent interviews, telling Vanity Fair in July 2015 that she had not misled anyone.
"I didn't deceive anybody. 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," Diallo told Vanity Fair, according to Us Weekly.
More recently, Diallo faced professional consequences in February 2024 when she was terminated from a teaching position in Arizona after administrators discovered she maintained an OnlyFans account.
The Sexology Institute, which Diallo identified as the institution that certified her, had not responded to requests for comment as of the latest reports. The announcement represents Diallo's latest attempt to establish a professional identity following years of public scrutiny and career disruptions stemming from the 2015 controversy over her racial claims.
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