Rochelle Riley Author

Rochelle Riley is an award-winning newspaper columnist who is no longer seeking permission to put the burden down. She has fearlessly called out elected offi cials who should have been ashamed of themselves and has helped raise millions of dollars for just causes, especially the fi ght for improved adult literacy. Host of her own radio talk show on 910AM Superstation in Detroit, she also makes regular appearances on MSNBC and NPR and contributes to Essence and Ebony magazines. She was inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame in 2016, received the 2017 Ida B. Wells Award from the National Association of Black Journalists and Northwestern University in 2017 and was awarded the 2017 Eugene C. Pulliam Fellowship by the Society of Professional Journalists. She also is a global wanderer who has visited twenty-six countries and counting.