Damilola Banjo
2021 POST-GRAD REPORTING FELLOW
Damilola Banjo is an investigative journalist from Nigeria with a reporting focus on issues of health, education, human rights, and social justice. She is currently working for WFAE, an NPR affiliate based out of Charlotte, North Carolina. She was named the 2020 Nigeria Investigative Journalist of the Year by Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism. Banjo worked with BBC Africa as part of the team that produced the Emmy nominated documentary, Sex for Grades. Damilola has a Bachelor's degree in Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and a Master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, New York.
